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Jan Kjærstad

Jan Kjærstad is a Norwegian author. Kjærstad is a theology graduate from MF Norwegian School of Theology and the University of Oslo. He has written a string of novels, short stories and essays and was editor of the literary magazine Vinduet. He has received a number of prizes, the most important being the Nordic Council Literature Prize, which he received for the perspectivist trilogy about the TV personality Jonas Wergeland.

Prizes and recognition
• 1984 – Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment (a prize awarded to promising authors in memory of Mads Wiel Nygaard by the publisher Aschehoug) • 1984 – Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for Homo Falsus • 1993 – Aschehougprisen (the primary literature prize awarded annually by the publisher Aschehoug) • 1998 – Henrik Steffens-prisen (the Henrik Steffens literature prize is awarded by the university system in Hamburg) • 2000 – Doblougprisen (Awarded by the Swedish Academy) • 2001 – Nordic Council's Literature Prize for Oppdageren ==References==
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