Erik Fosnes Hansen Norway

Erik Fosnes Hansen was born in New York on June 6, 1965, to Norwegian parents. He was raised and went to school in Oslo. After graduation he worked as a radio journalist for a few years before moving to Stuttgart to study literature and art. In 1985, at the age of twenty, he published his first novel, Falketårnet (The Falcon Tower), an intense psychological and symbolic drama set in the German Empire of the Crusades around 1230 AD. The novel was praised by critics and audience alike as a debut far beyond the ordinary.

His second novel, Salme ved reisens slutt (Hymn at Journey's End), which was published in Norway in 1990, is about the musicians in the multinational orchestra onboard the "Titanic" in 1912; an elegic journey through Europe at the fall of an epoch. Samle ved reisens slutt was received as a sensation by the press and is one of the best selling Norwegian postwar novels, also outside Scandinavia. It has reached bestseller level and earned superlatives from critics in the nearly thirty countries where is has been published so far. In 1990 Fosnes Hansen was awarded the most prestigeous Norwegian literary award Riksmålprisen for Salme ved reisens slutt, and in 1998 the book was nominated for the international IMPAC Award.

Fosnes Hansen's third great work Beretninger om beskyttelse (Tales of Protection) was published 1999 and was hailed as a masterpiece and a literary sensation. It is a bestseller in Norway and other countries and was shortlisted for the Aristeion Prize 2000.

Fosnes Hansen completed a new novel Løvekvinnen (The Lion Woman) which was published in October 2006.The much anticipated new novel is a story about being different in socitey.

Fosnes Hansen's novels have been sold to more than 25 territories world wide.