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Jan Jakob Tønseth
Jan Jakob Tønseth (1947– 2018) debuted as an author in 1971 with the poetry collection Kimærer, and attracted interest in his trilogy of novels featuring Hilmar Iversen. The collection of short stories, Von Aschenbachs fristelse (2006) was nominated for the Brage Prize and the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
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