Kiøsterud, Erland

Erland Kiøsterud (b 1953) made his literary debut in 1973 with the novel WOUNDS THAT NEVER HEAL. He has since written an array of novels, and received the Gyldendal Prize in 1986.

Praise for Kiøsterud's work:

"For ten years Erland Kiøsterud has possessed one of the most meticulous pens in Norwegian literature"
(Morgenbladet)

"Erland Kiøsterud undoubtedly belongs to the vanguard of post-modern prose writers"
(Aftenposten)

"His uncompromising writing demonstrates how individual writers create large complex worlds, maybe during one period or even in isolated works, which cannot be subsumed under generic descriptions in histories of literature"
(REVUE, a year book for world literature)

"It is precisely this mixture of metaphysics and everyday life, existential gravity and social realism which is so typical of Kiøsterud and which makes the book so shocking"
(Dagbladet, on The Norwegian Singer)

"... an existential seriousness and thirst for understanding permeate the novel. The reader is moved by the novel’s determined persistence and glow of passion"
(Dagbladet, on The Passions)

"... the explosive linguistic charge and the psychological tension are constant and total. One might say that the text is built up of continuous pictures etched into the insides of our eyelids and for this reason ever-present."
(Bonniers Litterära magasin, on The Andros Elegy)