Kyrre Andreassen

Kyrre Andreassen (b. 1971) lives in Drammen. He debuted in 1997 with the short story collection This Is Where You Have Your Friends. Andreassen has an M.A. from the University of Oslo. His second book, Barringer (1999), was nominated for the Brage Prize (Brageprisen) for best novel. In 2006, his novel Svendsen’s Catering earned him the Linguistic Society’s Literature Prize (Språklig samlings litteraturpris), and in 2007, he received the Hunger Prize (Sultprisen) for his authorship. His novel Furthermore, I Believe Carthage Must be Destroyed (2016) was also nominated for the Brage Prize.