Jostein Gaarder
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August 08, 1952
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male
place of birth
Oslo, Norway
about this author
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 by Jostein Gaarder avg rating 3.69 — 8,308 ratings — published 1991 95 editions |
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The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder avg rating 4.08 — 1,182 ratings — published 1990 40 editions |
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The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder avg rating 3.75 — 789 ratings — published 2003 27 editions |
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Vita Brevis: A Letter to St Augustine by Jostein Gaarder avg rating 3.43 — 398 ratings — published 1997 17 editions |
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Through a Glass, Darkly by Jostein Gaarder avg rating 3.76 — 321 ratings — published 1995 26 editions |
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The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder avg rating 3.53 — 340 ratings — published 1996 20 editions |
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Maya by Jostein Gaarder avg rating 3.40 — 317 ratings — published 1999 20 editions |
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Ringmasters Daughter by Jostein Gaarder avg rating 3.70 — 222 ratings — published 2000 16 editions |
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Perpustakaan Ajaib Bibbi Bokken by Jostein Gaarder, Klaus Hagerup, Ridwana Saleh avg rating 3.53 — 229 ratings — published 1993 8 editions |
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Hello? Is Anybody There? by Jostein Gaarder avg rating 3.42 — 184 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)
— Jostein Gaarder (The Solitaire Mystery)
"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."
— Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World)
— Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World)
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