Johan Harstad

Quick Facts

Full Name	Johan Harstad
Occupation	Norwegian Novelist
Date Of Birth	Feb 10, 1979(1979-02-10)
Age	45
Birthplace	Stavanger
Country	Norway
Birth City	Rogaland
Horoscope	Aquarius

Johan Harstad Biography

Johan Harstad is one of the most popular and richest Norwegian novelist who was born on February 10, 1979 in Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway. Johan Harstad (born 10 February 1979) is an Norwegian novelist writer of short stories, graphic designer, and playwright. The author is a resident of Oslo.

In 2008, he published his first sci-fi/horror novel called 172 Hours on the Moon that is a crossover novel between young adult and mature fiction. The novel, which deals with the return back to space in the year the year 2012 (2019 for edition in the US edition) is in part an homage to sci-fi and horror films of those of the 70s and 80s. For DARLAH it was awarded the 2008 Brage Prize in the field of children’s literature. Its rights have been licensed in the United States, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, the Faroe Islands, Turkey, South Korea, France, Mexico, Taiwan and Brasil.

In 2012 Harstad published his first non-fiction work, Blissard – A Book About Motorpsycho. The book is a mix between a biography of the Norwegian band Motorpsycho and their 1996 album Blissard, a personal account of the author’s long time relationship with the band’s music and his own teenage years. More than 140 pages of the books total of 330 is made up by footnotes, where Harstad expands on band trivia, details, digressions, literary detours and personal stories as well as including interviews with people affiliated with the band, poetry, reviews and newspaper clippings.

In 2015 he published Max-Mischa-Tetoffensiven, a more than a 1000 pages long novel centered around the life of the playwright and theatre director Max Hansen who moved from his native Norway to the U.S. as a teenager. The Dutch translation of this work was awarded the 2018 Europese Literatuur Prijs , a prize for translated European literature.

Harstad plays a part as a playwright and his work were published in 2008 as Bsider (‘B-sides’). In the latter half of 2008, Harstad was appointed an in- house playwright at National Theatre of Norway, as the first person to be appointed to this job. In his time working at the National Theatre he started working on a long two-part play that was released in the year 2010 under the title Osv. (‘Etc.’). The play is, in its Norwegian version is more than 500 pages, takes place in 1994, and is about the story of an American family that is breaking down. The father is an Vietnam War veteran, suffers an anxiety breakdown over two decades after his return and is moved to the park in Constitution Gardens in Washington D.C. close to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall. The daughter is struggling to cope in London following the loss of her husband. The father is an army photographer documenting conflicts across Europe as well as Africa. It is the Bosnian War, the first Chechen conflict, as well as the Rwandan genocide are a major part in the play as a backdrop as well as an example of the growing conflicts that took place in the mid-1990s. In the play, Harstad was awarded in 2014 his Norwegian Ibsen Award. In addition, he was nominated again for the Brage Prize.

Johan Harstad Net Worth

Johan Harstad is one of the richest Norwegian Novelist from Norway. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Johan Harstad 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Harstad was born in Stavanger. His first literary venture came in 2001 with the publication of a collection of prose short named Herfra blir du only the eldre (‘From this point onwards, you’ll only get older’). In 2002, he published short stories in a collection known as Ambulanse (‘Ambulance’) and 2005 brought the release of his debut novel called Buzz Aldrin. do you think he got the best of him in another mylderet? (‘Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion ?’). The story is located on the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean. The story is about a person who, rather than trying to be the best, chooses to settle for second-best in the world, much like his hero Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon. In 2009 , the novel was turned into a TV series featuring Chad Coleman as well as otherwell-known Scandinavian actors, such as Pal Sverre Valheim Hagen as well as Bjarne Henriksen. The rights to the novel have been licensed to United States, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, the Faroe Islands, Italy, Russia, Turkey, South Korea and France. The book was demanded to be translated into English An editor at the publisher Simon & Schuster likened Harstad’s work to the work from Jonathan Safran Foer. The book was released by the publisher in English in the United States by Seven Stories Press in New York in June of 2011 and was called one of Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Title of 2011, and was named one of Electric Literature’s most Beautiful Books of the Year.

In 2007 Harstad published Hasselby the novel of the fictional character of children’s books Alfie Atkins’s life as an adult and how he is blamed for the destruction all of humanity. The story is influenced through the David Lynch TV television series Twin Peaks, the theory of Synchronicity and Arthur Koestler’s book The Origins of Coincidence.

In 2011 Harstad oversaw the first production of the complete Memoirs of a Breadman-trilogy at Black Box Teater in Oslo, a theater known for its focus on modern and contemporary theater. The plays are all a mix between comedy, tragedy and absurdism. The first part, Akapulco, takes place in a fictitious Swiss village in Mexico around 1920-1930. The second part, Ellis Iland is set in Manhattan between 1906 and 1917 and focus on two immigrants, a German man called Barker and a Ukrainian man called Stoklitsky, who struggles to make a life for themselves in the city. Barker is an accountant, but is forced by their landlady to work in the New York City sewer hunting alligators while Stoklitsky, who just happens to be tone deaf, tries to compose a symphony for theremins, containing only perfect fifths. The trilogy was one of three candidates for the 2012 Norwegian Ibsen Award.

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Facts & Trivia

Johan Ranked on the list of most popular Norwegian novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Norway. Johan Harstad celebrates birthday on February 10 of every year.