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Something wrong?A Norwegian intellectual who wrote a novel about a teenage girl getting a philosophy course by mail - and watched it sell over 40 million copies in 60 languages.
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Jostein Gaarder Leipziger Buchmesse 2017 (cropped)
Françoise Foliot - Salon du Livre 1996 - Jostein Gaarder 001
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Jostein Gaarder 2019
Jostein Gaarder Interview
Jostein Gaarder Leipziger Buchmesse 2017
Jostein Gaarder signiert 'Fragen fragen' auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2019, 01Awards
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Born 8 August 1952, Jostein Gaarder built a career writing novels, short stories, and children's books, often from the perspective of children examining their sense of wonder. He favored metafiction, nesting stories within stories. In 1991 he published Sophie's World, a novel that would be translated into 60 languages and print over 40 million copies, making it his best known work. The approach remained consistent: write through young eyes, let the questions carry the weight.
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