Dag Solstad

Dag Solstad (16 July 1941 – 14 March 2025) was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer and dramatist whose work has been translated into 20 languages.

Solstad wrote nearly 30 books and was the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics' Award three times. Solstad made his literary debut with Spiraler, a collection of short stories influenced by literary modernism, in 1965, and started working as a full-time writer the following year.

His first marriage was to Erna Irene Asp, from 1968. From 1983 to 1990 he was married to Tone Elisabeth Melgård. In 1995 he married journalist Therese Bjørneboe, and was thus son-in-law of writer Jens Bjørneboe.

Novels Irr! Grønt! (1969) He was also an essayist, mainly during the 1960s and 1970s. His essays from this period are published in the collection (1981), and essays from the next decade in (1993). Peter Handke, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Per Petterson, three contemporary writers, regard Solstad highly for his literary excellence. Literary magazine The Paris Review compared Solstad's status in Norwegian literature to Philip Roth's status in American literature and Günter Grass' status in German literature; 1969: Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, for Irr! Grønt! 1982: Språklig samlings litteraturpris 1999: Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, for T. Singer 2006: Brage Prize, for Armand V. Fotnoter til en uutgravd roman