Jostein Gaarder

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Biography

Name:	Jostein Gaarder
Birth Date:	August 8, 1952
Nationality:	Norwegian
Gender:	Male

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Biography of Jostein Gaarder
4,788 words, approx. 16 pages

Few Norwegian writers have achieved such worldwide name recognition as Jostein Gaarder. His novel Sofies verden: roman om filosofiens historie (1991; translated as Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy, 1994) ranked as a number-one...

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Jostein Gaarder Information
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Jostein Gaarder (born August 8 1952 in Oslo) is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often...

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Epoca

Maya, el Ãºltimo Ã©xito de Jostein Gaarder: "El universo tiene una finalidad".(TT: Maya, the last success of Jostein Gaarder: "the universe has a purpose".)(ReseÃ±a)
06/11/2000: 683 words, approx. 2 pages

El noruego Jostein Gaarder es uno de esos fenómenos que de vez en cuando produce la literatura. Alguien que irrumpe con un libro que se convierte en un inmediato y rotundo éxito de ventas. En su caso fue la archiconocida no vela (o...

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The Boston Globe

IN THE CARDS In Jostein Gaarder's philosophical novel of chance and destiny, the joker is the last to show his hand
08/11/1996: 1,478 words, approx. 5 pages

THE SOLITAIRE MYSTERY By Jostein Gaarder. Translated, from the Norwegian, by Sarah Jane Hails. Illustrated by Hilde Kramer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 309 pp. $22. David Mehegan is book editor of the Globe. In last month's fiction issue of The New Yorker, fiction editor...

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