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Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Roy Jacobsen
- Roy Jacobsen (born 26 December 1954) is a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer.
- Born in Oslo, he made his publishing début in 1982 with the short-story collection Fangeliv (Prison Life), which won Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris.
- He is winner of the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and two of his novels have been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize: Seierherrene (The Conquerors) in 1991 and Frost in 2004.
- The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles was published in Britain in 2008.
- Jacobsen lives in Oslo.
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