Erlend Loe

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born

May 24, 1969 in Trondheim, Norway

gender

male

About this author

Erlend Loe is a Norwegian novelist. He worked at a psychiatric clinic, and was later a freelance journalist for Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen. Loe now lives and works in Oslo where in 1998 he co-founded Screenwriters Oslo - an office community for screenwriters.

In 1993 he debuted with the book Tatt av kvinnen, and a year later published a children's book, Fisken, about a forklift operator named Kurt. Loe has a distinctive style of writing which is often likened to naïve art. He often uses irony, exaggeration and humor.

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Books by Erlend Loe

Average rating: 3.70 · 5,922 ratings · 304 reviews · 27 distinct works

	Naive. Super 3.89 avg rating — 2,430 ratings — published 1996 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Doppler 3.89 avg rating — 913 ratings — published 2004 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Muleum 3.68 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Tatt av kvinnen 3.32 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 1993 — 14 editions	My rating:
	L 3.33 avg rating — 368 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Volvo Lastvagnar 3.46 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Fakta Om Finland 3.09 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Stille dager i Mixing Part 3.29 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Fisken 4.05 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Kurtby 3.80 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Kurt (6 books)
by Erlend Loe

3.92 avg rating — 378 ratings

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Quotes by Erlend Loe

“A human being weighing 70 kilograms contains among other things:
-45 litres of water
-Enough chalk to whiten a chicken pen
-Enough phosphorus for 2,200 matches
-Enough fat to make approximately 70 bars of soap
-Enough iron to make a two inch nail
-Enough carbon for 9,000 pencil points
-A spoonful of magnesium
I weigh more than 70 kilograms.

And I remember a TV series called Cosmos. Carl Sagan would walk around on a set that was meant to look like space, speaking in large numbers. On one of the shows he sat in front of a tank full of all the substances human beings are made of. He stirred the tank with a stick wondering if he would be able to create life.
He didn’t succeed.
”
― Erlend Loe, Naive. Super

tags: life , science

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“I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.”
― Erlend Loe, Muleum

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“Nå har jeg ham, tenker jeg. Alle vet at det ikke finnes tigere i Afrika. Alle unntatt Børre.”
― Erlend Loe

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