Jan Roar Leikvoll

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Jan Roar Leikvoll (7 June 1974 – 1 August 2014) was a Norwegian novelist.

In 2002-2003 he studied creative writing at the Academy Skrivekunstakademiet at Bergen. [1]

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Bergen City and municipality in Western Norway, Norway

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He published four novels: Eit vintereventyr ("A Winter Story", 2008), Fiolinane ("The Violins", 2010), Bovara (2012), and Songfuglen ("The Songbird", 2013), all on the publishing house Det Norske Samlaget. [2]

Det Norske Samlaget is a Norwegian publishing house founded on 24 March 1868 with the aim to promote and publish books in Landsmål, now known as Nynorsk.

He was awarded the Nynorsk Literature Prize for "The Violins" [3] and Stig Sæterbakken's memorial prize for his three first novels. [4] He was also awarded the Bokhandelens forfatterstipend in 2013, a grant for writers by the Norwegian Booksellers Association. [5]

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Leikvoll was open about living with a brain tumor a big part of his life. [6] He died on 1 August 2014. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Jan Roar Leikvoll er død". Skrivekunstakademiet. 1 August 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "Jan Roar Leikvoll ( 1974 - )". Det Norske Samlaget . Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "Nynorsk litteraturpris 2010 tildelt Jan Roar Leikvoll". Norwegian Literature Abroad - NORLA online. Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  4. ↑ Leikvoll fikk Stig Sæterbakkens minnepris
  5. 1 2 Linn Carin Dirdal (1 August 2014). "Forfatter Jan Roar Leikvoll er død. Fakta box". nrk.no. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Forfatter Jan Roar Leikvoll er død" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. August 1, 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2014.


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