Morten A. Strøksnes

Morten Strøksnes (2019)

Morten Andreas Strøksnes (born November 30, 1965 in Kirkenes ) is a Norwegian journalist, photographer and writer.

life and work

Strøksnes studied philosophy, literature and history in Oslo and Cambridge . Today he lives as a journalist and author in Oslo. After graduating, he worked as an editor at Morgenbladet until 2004 . He writes essays, portraits and reviews for most of the major Norwegian newspapers such as the Stavanger Aftenblad, the Bergens Tidende , Nordlys and Adresseavisen . In Norway he published several non-fiction books with reports on the Congo , the Sierra Madre and the Middle East . Strøksnes became known to a wider audience in 2015 with his novel Havboka - eller Kunsten å fange en kjempehai fra en gummibåt på et stort hav gjennom fire årstider ( Eng . The Book of the Sea ).

expenditure

• The book from the sea or How two friends take off in a rubber dinghy to catch an ice shark in the North Sea, and it takes a whole year to do it. Translated by Ina Kronenberger and Sylvia Kall. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA) Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-641-19882-4 .

Original title: Havboka - eller Kunsten å catch en kjempehai fra en gummibåt på et stort hav gjennom fire årstider. Forlaget October, Oslo 2015

Audio books

• The book from the sea or How two friends take off in a rubber dinghy to catch an ice shark in the North Sea and need a whole year to do it. Hörverlag Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8445-2335-5 . (1 mp3 CD, read by Shenja Lacher and Stefan Wilkening , 538 min.)

Awards

• 2011: Språkprisen, Prize of the Language Council, awarded for non-fiction books of outstanding literary quality
• 2015: Brageprisen , Norwegian Literature Prize
• 2015: Critics 'Awards , Norwegian Critics' Award
• 2017: Knowledge book of the year for Das Buch vom Meer

Web links

• Morten Andreas Strøksnes in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
• German author website at DVA / Random House
• Norwegian author page of Forlaget October