Matias faldbakken bio

It is written with great imagination, linguistic excess, and a distinctive mixture of passion and irony. The narrative alternates freely between realistic novel traditions, satire, romance, and folk tales, and several historical eras are in flux at the same time. Poor Thing is an original, entertaining, and captivating novel about exclusion, loneliness, desire, and care.

And all the while, the story poses the question: What is a trauma? Matias Faldbakken has been awarded the Oktober Prize. He writes novels that are profoundly original, and that go their own way. The Oktober Prize was instituted with the purpose of strengthening and further developing significant, preferably younger, authorships that are particularly characterized by literary courage.

The jury's motivation is as follows:. The exploration of how transcendence is closely linked to the power of creativity and identity is a frequently recurring theme in his authorship. In his latest novel, this is merged into in a story that captivates from the very first page, and continues to transform as the story progresses. The novel is full of richness.

The satire is still edgy, but the mocking gaze has been replaced with an honed humor. The characters have a warmth to them, and the narrative a great momentum. Raja, the Minister of Culture and Gender Equality, was present to hand out the award. He has, among other things, exhibited at Documenta 13 and he has represented Norway at the Venice Biennale in In he published his fifth novel.

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Toggle the table of contents. In he represented Norway at the 51st Venice Biennale. Together with »Macht und Rebel« and »Unfun« , the books make up the »Scandinavian Misanthropy« trilogy. The titillating novels provoke amorality, absurdity, and extremes, break taboos and question the self-centered consumerist culture of the West. The protagonists include prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, neo-Nazis, and violent offenders.