Erlend Loe (born 1969), a Norwegian writer, has acted, made short films and music videos, worked as a literary critic and translator, a teacher and in a psychiatric hospital. His breakthrough novel Naiv. Super (1996) has been translated into German, Swedish, Danish, Polish, Dutch and Finnish. The novel is a poetic and humorous description of a young man who reflects on the mystery of existence in a reality controlled by the media. Loe has also published three children's books and translated poetry by Hal Sirowitz.
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