Matias Faldbakken
Matias Faldbakken | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Crime Novelist |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Genre | pop cult, slash, |
| Subject | pop, youth culture, underground, slash |
| Notable works | The Cocka Hola Company, Macht und Rebel, Unfun |
| Website | |
| http://www.salomonssonagency.com/authors.php?id=36 | |
Matias Faldbakken (born 1973 in Hobro, Denmark) is a Norwegian artist and writer. Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He is the son of the author Knut Faldbakken. He made his literary debut in 2001 with The Cocka Hola Company, the first part of his Scandinavian Misantrophy Trilogy. Macht und Rebel was released two years later, following most recently by Unfun, in Spring 2008, which completed his trilogy. All three novels are published under the pseudonym Abo Rasul.
In 2006, Faldbakken released Kaldt produkt (“Cold Product”) under his own name. It is a contemporary update on A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.
Faldbakken received the Bjørnsonstipendet in 2002.[1]
His foreign publishers are Cappelen in Norway, Lindhardt og Ringhof in Denmark, Johnny Kniga in Finland, Blumenbar and Heyne in Germany, Mondadori in Italy, Suma in Spain, Limus in Russia, LWU in Lithuania, and Harvill in the UK.[2]
Bibliography
As Abo Rasul:
Cocka Hola Company
Macht und Rebel
Unfun
As Mathias Faldbakken:
Snort Stories
External Links
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