MY FICTION BIO 1978–2020
A Perfect Life in This Perfect World
From “The Cliff” via “The Factory” and “The Heart Never Gets Full” to “We Never Talked About Love”.
New novel July 2024: The Man Who Stopped Aging
My upbringing was safe, but also marked by loneliness. I was a careful little boy who lived with my parents and my brother in an apartment, a block of flats with 6 apartments in Røldal Haukelivegen in Odda. My father was a factory worker, and my mother worked at home. Both mother and father raised my brother and I to be proud of our background as a factory worker family. Values such as honesty, frugality and respect dominated that upbringing.
I grew up in the 1950s and 60s in the industrial city of Odda. The fact that my father was a factory worker probably influenced me a lot. I have become the person I have become thanks to my parents and because of growing up in Odda — for better or worse.
When I think back, there are first and foremost two things that strike me: I had a safe upbringing, and I felt very lonely. The two things do not go so well together, maybe someone will say. But I was lucky to have the first, safe…
