Asbjørn Jaklin

Asbjørn Ingvald Jaklin

Asbjørn Ingvald Jaklin (born February 18, 1956 in Tromsø ) is a Norwegian journalist for the regional newspaper Nordlys , non-fiction author and crime writer. His books are bestsellers in Norway and have been translated into several languages, including German. Asbjørn Jaklin lives in Tromsø with his wife and four children. He is a passionate hunter, fisherman and cross-country skier.

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In addition to his extensive journalistic work for Nordlys and other Norwegian newspapers, Asbjørn Jaklin has authored several books that deal with historical accounts, in particular about the northern region, the Second World War and the Cold War in Norway.

In 1999 and 2002 short biographies of selected Norwegians appeared in two anthologies, which Jaklin had previously published in the Nordlys newspaper . These include over 50 personalities such as Kirsten Svineng , Knut Hamsun , Ellisif Wessel , John Andreas Savio , Bjørn Wirkola and Ole Henrik Magga .

In the book Historien om Nordnorge (Eng. History of Northern Norway), a popular scientific history book of the region, published in 2004, Jaklin describes the history of Northern Norway for the first time since 1884. He focuses on the concrete stories of individuals, the meaningfulness of what happened in it Have period. As he himself says, he benefits from his journalistic experience with the stylistic device of "storytelling".

Asbjørn Jaklin was nominated for the Brageprisen for the best non-fiction book for the book Nordfronten: Hitlers skjebneomrade (2006) (Eng. The Northern Front: Hitler's Fateful Region ), which depicts the history of Northern Norway during the German occupation 1940–1945 . Jaklin deals with the invasion of Norway, the resistance of the population against the German occupiers, the wars in Finland, the events on the so-called. Murmansk Front and German scorched earth policy in Finnmark .

In Isfront: den kalde krigen i nord (2009) (German ice war: the cold war in the north ) Jaklin deals with the important role of the northern region in the cold war and describes critical events in the region that could easily have led to the third world war.

The death sentences of 25 war criminals and their execution immediately after the end of World War II, including National Socialists such as Vidkun Quisling , prime minister of the puppet government set up by Hitler, is investigated in the 2011 book De dødsdønte (German: The Condemned ).

The book Brent Jord (2016) (Eng. Scorched Earth) examines the events surrounding the forced withdrawal of German troops from the Norwegian provinces of Troms and Finnmark and the forced evacuation of the resident population that was forced by the German Wehrmacht. Jaklin not only describes the personal fate of the expellees, but also provides insights into the political and military background of the expulsions that lasted from autumn 1944 to winter 1945.

Since 2012 he has also been writing detective novels that put a fictional journalist named Alexander Winther at the center of the investigation. So far Tödlicher Frost (2014) and Rote Zone (2016) have been published in German. The total of 3 Alex Winther novels are based on historical background research and thus combine fictional and non-fictional elements that characterize Jaklin's crime novels to a large extent. In 2012 Jaklin was nominated for the Riverton Prize (Best Norwegian Crime) for his book Rote Zone .

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• 1999 Nordlendinger til tusen, bind 1 , portretter - Nordlys (newspaper) , ISBN 82-916-6809-4
• 2002 Nordlendinger til tusen, bind 2 , portretter - Nordlys (newspaper) , ISBN 82-91668-15-9
• 2004 Historien om Nord-Norge , populærhistorisk Fremdstilling av landsdelens historie siste 120 år - Gyldendal Verlag, ISBN 82-05-31426-8
• 2006 Northern fronts: Hitler's skjebneområde - Gyldendal Verlag, ISBN 978-82-05-34537-9
• 2009 Isfront: den kalde krigen i nord - Gyldendal Verlag, ISBN 978-82-05-37809-4
• 2011 De dødsdønte , om rettsoppgjøret etter other verdenskrig - Gyldendal Verlag, ISBN 978-82-05-41088-6
• 2012 Svart frost , detective novel - Vigmostad & Bjørke Verlag, ISBN 978-82-41-90740-1
• 2014 Rød sone , detective novel - Vigmostad & Bjørke Verlag, ISBN 978-82-41-90921-4
• 2014 Deadly Frost , detective novel. Translated from Norwegian by Ulrich Sonnenberg - Suhrkamp Verlag , ISBN 978-3-518-46481-6
• 2016 Rote Zone , detective novel. Translated from Norwegian by Ulrich Sonnenberg - Suhrkamp Verlag , ISBN 978-3-518-46649-0
• 2016 Brent jord: 1944-1945: heltene, ofrene, de skyldige - Gyldendal Verlag, ISBN 978-82-05-48429-0
• 2017 Hvite løgner , crime novel - Vigmostad & Bjørke Verlag, ISBN 978-82-419-1248-1

Web links

• Asbjörn Jaklin in the Stilton Literary Agency (English)
• Asbjörn Jaklin at Suhrkamp Verlag (German)
• Gyldendal Verlag (Norwegian)
• Nordlys newspaper (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörns verden: Nordlendiger til tusen. Retrieved October 31, 2017 (Norwegian). 
2. ^ Christine Kristoffersen Hansen: Historisk lappeteppe. In: Nordlys. October 13, 2004, accessed October 31, 2017 (Norwegian). 
3. ↑ Per Haddal: Bokbragd om Hitler's skjebneområde. In: Aftenposten. November 16, 2006, accessed October 31, 2017 (Norwegian). 
4. ↑ Kjell Moe: Isfrontens mareritt. Kulturspeilot, December 21, 2009, accessed October 31, 2010 (Norwegian). 
5. ↑ Lars West Johnsen: Brent, blasts, glemt. Nordlys journalist Asbjørn Jaklin has been responsible for the most viktigste formidler av Nord-Norges. In: Dagsavisen. November 6, 2016, accessed October 31, 2017 (Norwegian). 
6. ↑ Asbjørn Jaklin nominert til Rivertonprisen. Vigmostad & Bjørke, accessed October 31, 2010 (Norwegian).