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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 30 September 1929
- Died
- 23 September 2021
- Conflict
- World War II
- Place of birth
- Mandal
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Kjell
- Family name
- Askildsen
- Father
- Arne Askildsen
- Field of work
- creative and professional writing, Norwegian literature
- Occupation
- writer, prose writer, novelist, poet, short story writer, literary translator
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Religion
- Christianity, communism
- Awards
- Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment, Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, Riksmål Society Literature Prize, Aschehoug Prize, Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, Dobloug Prize, Brage Prize honorary award, October Prize, Thorleif Dahl's prize, Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, Aase Byes legat
- educated at
- University of Oslo
- end of work period
- 2015
- influenced by
- Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett
- member of
- Norwegian resistance movement
- name in native language
- Kjell Askildsen
- notable work
- Thomas F’s Last Notes to the Public
- start of work period
- 1953
- writing language
- Norwegian
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