Atle Næss

Atle Næss (born March 25, 1949 in Mysen ) is a Norwegian writer.

Life

Næss grew up in Askim and has been a cand.philol. In the subjects of English, linguistics and Norwegian since 1976. Until 1987 he worked as a teacher at the secondary school in Asker , in Odense, Denmark (for Norwegian), in Frydenberg and at the Østfold University .

Naess currently lives in Ski and Kråkerøy . His daughter is the linguist Åshild Næss , with whom he wrote the book Et hav av språk .

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His debut novel in 1975 was the love story Gun . So far, four works have been translated into German, including a biography about Galileo and a novel about the mathematician Bernhard Riemann . His books have been translated into a total of ten languages.

Novels

Gun, 1975
April, 1977
830 S, 1981
Opp fra det absolute zero point, 1985
Sensommer, 1987
Korsfareren, 1988
Forces som beveger, 1990
Østre linje, 1994
Den tvilende Thomas, 1997
Innersvinger, 2002
Sensommer, 2006
Red av minus en, 2006
Din nestes eiendom, 2009
Teltmakeren, 2012
I heaven's tjeneste, 2016

Youth novels

Grei kamerat, Hans, 1987
Gå på lufta, Hans !, 1989

Children's books

På vulkanferie, 1988
Islandsboka, 1992
Finlandsboka, 1994

Essays

Askim-Firenze t / r, 1992
Noe som ligner en mening. Ni essays om vitenskap, religion og undring, 2015

Reports and non-fiction

Skøytebyen. Fra Mjøs-is to OL-hall, 1991
Ibsens Italia, 1997
Fossekraft and long linjer. Hafslund ASA 1898-1998, 1998
Italian pictures, 1999
There jorden stod silence. Galileo Galilei og hans tid, 2001
Munch. En biografi, 2004
Et hav av språk (co-author), 2007
Nidarosdomen. A biography of the Norges National Monument and Menneskene Som bygde det, 2011
Leonardo da Vinci and Hans Tid, 2014
Martin Luther, 2017

Translations into German

Caravaggio's escape. Translated by Angelika Gundlach. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-458-17171-1 (Den tvilende Thomas, 1997).
When the world stood still Galileo Galilei - betrayed, misunderstood, revered. Translated by Kerstin Hartmann-Butt. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-21063-4 (Da jorden stod stille. Galileo Galilei og hans tid, 2001).
The Riemann Hypothesis. On the beauty of prime numbers and the riddles of love. Translated by Günther Frauenlob. Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-4920-5110-1 (Roten av minus en, 2006). Pocket edition at Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-25366-6 . As an unabridged paperback edition by Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-25366-6 .
Edvard Munch. Translated by Daniela Stilzebach. Verlagshaus Römerweg, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-7374-1310-7 .
Leonardo Da Vinci and His Time: A Biography. Translated by Daniela Stilzebach. Verlagshaus Römerweg, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-7374-1317-6 (Leonardo da Vinci og hans tid, 2014).