Jostein Gaarder







Jostein Gaarder

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born
August 08, 1952

gender
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place of birth
Oslo, Norway


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Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often uses metafiction in his works, writing stories within stories.

Gaarder was born into a pedagogical family. His best known work is the novel Sophie's World, subtitled A Novel about the History of Philosophy. This popular work has been translated into fifty-three languages; there are over thirty million copies in print,[1] with three million copies sold in Germany alone.

In 1997, he established the Sophie Prize together with his wife Siri Dannevig. This prize is an international environment and develop...more




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Sophie's World Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder
avg rating 3.70 — 6,827 ratings — published 1991
92 editions
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The Solitaire Mystery The Solitaire Mystery
by Jostein Gaarder
avg rating 4.08 — 1,012 ratings — published 1990
40 editions
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The Orange Girl The Orange Girl
by Jostein Gaarder
avg rating 3.78 — 669 ratings — published 2004
26 editions
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Vita Brevis: A Letter to St Au... Vita Brevis: A Letter to St Augustine
by Jostein Gaarder
avg rating 3.42 — 351 ratings — published 1997
16 editions
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Through a Glass, Darkly Through a Glass, Darkly
by Jostein Gaarder
avg rating 3.79 — 267 ratings — published 1995
26 editions
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The Christmas Mystery The Christmas Mystery
by Jostein Gaarder
avg rating 3.56 — 283 ratings — published 1377
20 editions
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Maya Maya
by Jostein Gaarder
avg rating 3.41 — 263 ratings — published 1999
20 editions
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Perpustakaan Ajaib Bibbi Bokke... Perpustakaan Ajaib Bibbi Bokken
by Jostein Gaarder, Klaus Hagerup Ridwana Saleh (Translator)
avg rating 3.51 — 209 ratings — published 1993
8 editions
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Ringmasters Daughter Ringmasters Daughter
by Jostein Gaarder
avg rating 3.67 — 184 ratings — published 2000
16 editions
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Hello? Is Anybody There? Hello? Is Anybody There?
by Jostein Gaarder
avg rating 3.45 — 162 ratings — published 1997
14 editions
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"How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living."
Jostein Gaarder (The Solitaire Mystery)
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"Wisest is she who knows she does not know."
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"You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss."
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