Frode Sander Øien

Frode Sander Øien (born 1969 in Trondheim ), also known by his pseudonym Samuel Bjørk , is a Norwegian writer and playwright who focuses on crime stories and thrillers . He is also a musician and has released six music albums as a singer-songwriter .

life and work

Frode Sander Øien was born in Trondheim in Norway in 1969 and grew up in Steinkjer . There he played together with Bent Sæther , who later became bassist and singer of the Norwegian rock band Motorpsycho , in the band Flippa Hormoner. He also supported Sola Jonsen with his band DumDum Boys and Lars Lien from The International Tussler Society in the production of their albums. At the age of 21 he wrote his first play for the stage. In 1999 he released the music album Camping with the band Sanderfinger, which he founded , from which the single Racerbil was released in the same year , and in 2000 the album Evig Rosa followed . In 2001 Øien wrote his first novel Fantastiske Pepsi Love , followed in 2009 by Speed ​​til frokost . Also in 2009 the first album of his new band I Love Wynona A Beautiful Noise was released and in 2012 he released The Whiteroom Sessions with it .

His book Det henger engel alene i skogen , published in 2013 under the pseudonym Samuel Bjørk and the first volume in the series about Commissioner Holger Munch, became an international bestseller; The German translation by Gabriele Haefs , which was published by Goldmann under the title Engelskalt , rose to number 14 on the SPIEGEL paperback bestseller list in April 2015. The title rose to number 1 on the list on May 16, 2015 and remained in The top 10 was published in 2015 by Uglen , the second volume in the series about Commissioner Munch, which was published in October 2016 under the German title Federgrab . Because of his success and style, Øien has been compared to the Swedish author Stieg Larsson .

Frode Sander Øien lives and works in Oslo .

Publications

• Fantastic Pepsi Love , Capellen 2001.
• Speed ​​til frokost , Capellen 2009.
• Det henger en angel alene i skogen . Vigmostad & Bjørke 2013, ISBN 978-91-85785-47-6 .
  • German: Engelskalt (translation from Norwegian by Gabriele Haefs ). Goldmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-48225-2 .
• Uglen , Vigmostad & Bjørke 2015, ISBN 978-82-41911-94-1 .
  • German: Federgrab (translation from Norwegian by Gabriele Haefs). Goldmann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-20525-7 .

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Sanderfinger , band portrait at mic.no; accessed on August 23, 2015.
2. ^ ^{A b} Samuel Bjørk , author portrait at Goldmann Verlag; accessed on August 23, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Engelskalt in book report ; accessed on August 23, 2015.
4. ↑ The new Stieg Larsson? ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Buchreport , May 15, 2015; accessed on August 23, 2015.  

Web links

• Frode Sander Øien at Discogs (English)
• Sanderfinger at Discogs (English)
• I Love Wynona at Discogs (English)