# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-kj-rstad
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:27:54.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-kj-rstad"
name: "Jan Kjærstad"
slug: "jan-kj-rstad"
description: "Jan Kjærstad is a Norwegian author. Kjærstad is a theology graduate from MF Norwegian School of Theology and the University of Oslo. He has written a string of novels, short stories and essays and was editor of the literary magazine Vinduet. He has received a number of prizes, the most important being the Nordic Council Literature Prize, which he received for the perspectivist trilogy about the TV personality Jonas Wergeland."
tagline: "Norwegian author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Kj%C3%A6rstad_2022-3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-03-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.014616
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.jankjaerstad.no"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump