Lirhus, Agnar
Agnar Lirhus (b 1978) made his debut in 2005 with the novel THE WOODS ARE GREEN, which was nominated for the P2 listeners' prize. He has since written the novels TO THE ISLAND and MOUNT TUPELO.
In 2006 he was invited to the Europäisches Festival des Debütromans in Kiel. In 2008 he was one of twelve European writers invited to write an essay for the young.euro.connect festival, and among the six invited to the readings in Berlin and Munich. His travel essay was later selected for the anthology YOUNG EURO CONNECT 2005-2008: PUBLIKATION AUSGEWÄHLTER ESSAYS.
Click here to read the essay in German.
Lirhus has also studied classical guitar at the Norwegian Academy of Music, played bass in the popular band Superfamily and worked for two years as a script writer on the longest running TV series in Scandinavian history, Hotel Cæsar.
Photographer:
Finn Ståle FelbergSelected bibliography & translations
| Year | Norwegian title | English Title | Rights sold to | Foreign publisher | ||
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| 2010 | Affektlære | Doctrine of the Affections |
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| 2009 | Mount Tupelo | Mount Tupelo |
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| 2006 | Til Øya | To the Island |
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| 2005 | Skogen er grønn | The Woods Are Green |
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