Johan Harstad

Johan Harstad ( born February 10, 1979 in Stavanger ) is a Norwegian author of short stories, short stories and novels.

Life

Harstad grew up in Stavanger Rogaland in southwest Norway, studied literature at the University of Trondheim ( Engineering and Natural Sciences University of Norway ) and now lives in Oslo. Getting shorter texts he published in 2000 in Gyldendals debut anthology Postboks 6860th in 2001 he published his first independent work, the collection of short prose Herfra blir you bare Eldre (Eng. From here on you will only older). Just one year later (2002) were below the title Ambulanse (German ambulance ) to eleven partly longer short stories have been translated into French and partly in German.

In 2005, he left with his debut novel Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet? (Eng. Buzz Aldrin where were you in all this mess ), the short forms. The novel is set mostly in the village Gjógv in the Faroe Islands and has earned a reputation as a cult there quickly book. The focus is on the young Norwegian Mattias gardener who wants to accompany a friend to the group of islands in the Atlantic and return to his hometown of Stavanger after a week. But not only leaves him his girlfriend after twelve years of a seemingly easy relationship. Even otherwise, his life gradually gets out of control. In the style of Latin American magical realism, the spatial and temporal dimensions wide: in 2019 Mattias is seemingly close to the universe that has fascinated him ever since. He is particularly interested in for Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, the second man on the moon, the - seems long forgotten - in contrast to Neil Armstrong. The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet 's opinion of the book: " A trip to the moon by a novel"

Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i currently in ten languages ​​(English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Faroese and Finnish) is translated old mylderet. Consideration is also to film the novel for a television series.

The author works on the side as a graphic designer and with different film and music projects. Among other things, he designed book covers for his books themselves

Works

  • Herfra blir you bare Eldre, [ Oslo ]: Sansoni, 2001 ISBN 82-05-29789-4.
  • Ambulanse, [ Oslo ]: Sansoni, 2002 ISBN 82-05-30736-9.
  • Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet, [ Oslo ]: Sansoni, 2005 ISBN 82-05-33959-7.
  • Hässelby, [ Oslo ]: Sansoni, 2007 ISBN 9788205375772.
  • Darlah - 172 timer på Manen [ Oslo ]: Cappelen Damm, 2008 ISBN 82-02-29638-2.
  • Bsider [ Oslo ]: Sansoni, 2008 ISBN 9788205386013.
  • Osv. [ Oslo ]: Sansoni, 2010 ISBN 9788205406131.

Plays

  • Graders av hvitt, 2007
  • Washingtin, 2007
  • Krasnoyarsk, 2008
  • Brødmannens memoarer del 1: Akapulco, 2007
  • Brødmannens memoarer del 2: Ellis Iland, 2009
  • Osv. , 2010

Translations

  • Ambulanse. From the Norwegian by Steffen Hahn and Philipp Schneider ( separations in Chance of snow New texts from Scandinavia Edited by Klaus Böldl and Uwe Englert Frankfurt / Main:. .. S. Fischer Verlag, 2004 [ = Neue Rundschau, 115, Issue 3 ] ISBN. 3-10-809058-5 )
  • Ambulanse. (Excerpt in Out of the Cool: New Nordic novellas Edited by sinking Jana Meyer food:. . Meysenburg, 2005 ISBN 3-930508-18-4. )
  • Buzz Aldrin where were you in all this mess, Munich: Piper, 2006 ISBN 3-492-04877-3.
  • Darlah, Munich: German Taschenbuch Verlag, 2010 ISBN 978-3-423-24777-1.
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