A Norwegian writer whose 1999 short story collection earned quiet critical praise, then whose engagement to a princess turned him into a tabloid fixture - and whose later decades played out as a public struggle between artistic ambition and the suspicion he'd become famous for the wrong reasons.
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Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. LorentzenAlso won Royal House Centennial Medal
Marius Borg HøibyAlso won Royal House Centennial Medal
Haakon, Crown Prince of NorwayAlso won Royal House Centennial Medal
Erling LorentzenAlso won Royal House Centennial Medal
Princess Ingrid Alexandra of NorwayAlso won Royal House Centennial Medal
Sverre DiesenAlso won Royal House Centennial MedalAbout this person
Born Mikael Bjørshol on 30 September 1972, he changed his name to Ari Behn in 1996, three years before publishing "Trist som faen" ("Sad as hell"), a short story collection that drew favorable reviews and remains his best-known work. His 2002 marriage to Princess Märtha Louise of Norway - during which he held no title and remained a private citizen - spiked interest in the book, which eventually sold nearly 100,000 copies. He went on to publish four novels, two more story collections, a play, and a wedding book, though the later work drew cooler reception; he also designed a china set called "Peacock" and acknowledged that many Norwegians saw him as a "fool" and an amateur. From 2013 until his death he painted in a neo-expressionist style influenced by Jean-Michel Basquiat, producing what critics called "highly narrative" work that showed internationally in 2017-18. He and Märtha Louise divorced in 2017; Behn died on 25 December 2019.
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