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Ingvar Ambjørnsen

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in Tønsberg, Norway

May 20, 1956

Died

July 19, 2025

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Ingvar Even Ambjørnsen-Haefs (1956-2025) was a Norwegian writer. He is best known for his "Elling" tetralogy: Utsikt til paradiset (1993), Fugledansen (1995), Brødre i blodet (1996), and Elsk meg i morgen (1999).

Brødre i blodet ("Blood brothers") was turned into a successful movie, entitled Elling, which received an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category in 2001. The English translation of the novel is called Beyond the Great Indoors.

His debut novel was a semi-autobiography called 23-salen ("The 23rd Row"), in which he criticized Norway's efforts to take care of psychically challenged individuals. In all his novels he has spoken the outsiders' cause, as he did in his break-through novel Hvite Niggere ("White Niggers") in 1986. T ...more

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Sist helg åpnet VG døra til Norges nasjonale torturkjeller.

I den første av en serie artikler fikk de av oss som ville, en grundig og vel dokumentert innføring i forholdene i de pedofile nettverkene som finnes der nede. Jeg må medgi at jeg i utgangspunktet ikke var en av dem som ville ta turen. Jeg hadde ikke noe lyst til å tilbringe helga sammen med menn som fantaserer om å tukle med unger. Eller

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	Hvite niggere 4.07 avg rating — 2,452 ratings — published 1986 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Utsikt til paradiset (Elling, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 1,824 ratings — published 1993 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elling (Elling, #3) by Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Don Bartlett (Translator), Kari Dickson (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 1,740 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fugledansen (Elling, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 1,251 ratings — published 1995 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elsk meg i morgen (Elling, #4) 3.72 avg rating — 711 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ekko av en venn 3.89 avg rating — 666 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Den siste revejakta 3.76 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	23-salen 4.07 avg rating — 502 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Døden på Oslo S (Pelle og Proffen, #2) 3.86 avg rating — 483 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ingen kan hjelpe meg 3.63 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Elling (7 books)
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“İnsan nedense, kendisine ızdırap çektirenlere yeni ızdırap şansları tanımak konusunda çok heveslidir.”
― Ingvar Ambjørnsen

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“Alt går over. Eller mer presist: Alt går over i noe annet.”
― Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Elling

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“Det var som å bli pult i øregangene av erigerte, forvrengte toner.”
― Ingvar Ambjørnsen, 23-salen

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