Audun Sjøstrand
{{Short description|Norwegian writer (born 1950)}}
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| birth_place = Radøy, Norway
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| alma_mater = University of Bergen
| occupation = Crime fiction writer
Journalist
Teacher
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Audun Sjøstrand (born 11 April 1950) is a Norwegian journalist, teacher and crime fiction writer.
Personal life and education
Sjøstrand was born in Radøy on 11 April 1950. He studied literary science, English language and Nordic literature at the University of Bergen, graduating in 1977.
Career
Sjøstrand has been a journalist for the newspaper Gula Tidend, and taught in secondary schools. He made his literary debut in 1985 with the puzzle crime novel Hundemordet. With this book he introduced the subgenre rural crime fiction in Norway. Further novels are Ureint trav from 1987 and Valsekongens fall from 1991. He was awarded the Melsom Prize in 1986 (for Hundemordet), and the Riverton Prize in 1991 (for Valsekongens fall).{{cite encyclopedia|title=Audun Sjøstrand |first=Vibeke |last=Lauritsen |editor-first=Ottar |editor-last=Grepstad |editor-link=Ottar Grepstad |encyclopedia=Allkunne |publisher=Nynorsk kultursentrum |location= |url=https://www.allkunne.no/framside/biografiar/s/audun-sjostrand/102/1423/ |language=Norwegian|accessdate=19 March 2017}}
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Category:University of Bergen alumni
Category:Norwegian journalists
Category:Norwegian schoolteachers
Category:Norwegian male novelists
Category:Norwegian crime fiction writers
Category:20th-century Norwegian novelists
Category:Nynorsk-language writers
Category:20th-century Norwegian male writers
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