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Roy Jacobsen


Born
in Oslo, Norway
December 26, 1954

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Roy Jacobsen is a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer. Born in Oslo, he made his publishing début in 1982 with the short-story collection Fangeliv (Prison Life). He is winner of the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature.

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“...once you settle on an island, you never leave, an island holds on to what it has with all its might and main.”
Roy Jacobsen, De usynlige

“Si hay alguien en este mundo en quien puedes confiar es en Marlene. Marlene es una montaña, como lo era antes mi madre, y no una voluble paloma atrapada en una tormenta que de pronto está completamente fuera de sí un jueves cualquiera. Marlene es tan firme como el suelo que pisa, ya sean las dos o las cinco de la tarde. Nunca falla, su humor es estable y no tiene la menor idea de qué es el miedo; en realidad, todo el mundo debería tener una madre como ella.”
Roy Jacobsen, Child Wonder
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“Jeg er meg, og det er det kanskje ikke noe særlig å gjøre med, men det er kanskje noe å gjøre ut av det.”
Roy Jacobsen, Marions slør



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