Ingvar Ambjørnsen, a Norwegian writer that blended a sharp, also dark tone with wit and compassion in jobs that portrayed the lives of the oppressed and at risk, has actually passed away
STOCKHOLM– Ingvar Ambjørnsen, a Norwegian writer that blended a sharp, also dark tone with wit and compassion in jobs that portrayed the lives of the oppressed and at risk, has actually passed away, his author claimed. He was 69.
The Cappelen Damm releasing residence did not define the reason of fatality. Ambjørnsen had actually long been public with his fight versus a lung disease called persistent obstructive lung condition, or COPD.
Norwegian tabloid VG reported he is endured by his other half, Gabriele Haefs, claiming she uploaded information of Ambjørnsen’s fatality on Saturday.
Born Upon Might 20, 1956, in Tönsberg– defined on his German-language writer site as “Norway’s most bar-filled community”– Ambjørnsen matured in Larvik and operated in different work in market and psychiatry prior to releasing his initial docudrama book in 1981. 4 years later on, he transferred to Hamburg, where he lived for years.
” His publications are identified by effective, reasonable summaries of the seamier side of life,” the author claimed.
Ambjørnsen turned into one of the author’s best-known modern writers with 4 books constructed around the personality Elling, a reluctant and creative outsider that dealt with the amusing however capitivating weakness of day-to-day live after launch from a psychological health center.
The funny “Elling”– the tale of 2 just recently launched psychological clients bunking with each other in an apartment or condo in Oslo– was chosen in 2001 for an Academy Honor as ideal foreign-language movie. The story came down on Broadway in 2010, with a play starring Denis O’Hare and Brendan Fraser: Among the misfits was focused on his mom, the various other consumed with sex.
According to the writer site, Ambjørnsen created 18 books and 3 collections of narratives, along with a number of publications for kids and young people. A recently created collection of narratives is readied to take place sale in Norway on July 31.
