Roy Jacobsen is a Norwegian author. He made his publishing debut in 1982 with the short-story collection Fangeliv (Prison Life), which won Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. He is winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and two of his novels have been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize.
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Born on the Norwegian island that bears her name, Ingrid Barrøy’s world is circumscribed by storm-scoured rocks and the moods of the sea by which her family lives and dies. But her father dreams of building a quay that will end their isolation, and h... SEE MORE