Dag Solstad is one of Norway's leading and most celebrated contemporary writers. Solstad has won many Norwegian and international awards, most recently the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize in 2017, and is the only author to have won the Norwegian Critics Prize three times. All three of his novels already published in English - Shyness and Dignity, Novel 11, Book 18 and Professor Andersen's Night - have been listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
He's a kind of surrealistic writer... I think that's serious literature -- Haruki Murakami An utterly hypnotic and utterly humane writer -- James Wood * New Yorker * Without question Norway's bravest, most intelligent novelist -- Per Petterson He doesn't write to please other people. Do exactly what you want, that's my idea...the drama exists in his voice -- Lydia Davis Three of his novels, jewels from a hoard of nearly thirty books, have been translated into English; more are promised -- James Wood * New Yorker *