Jan Roar Leikvoll
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Jan Roar Leikvoll (7 June 1974 – 1 August 2014) was a Norwegian novelist.
In 2002-2003 he studied creative writing at the Academy Skrivekunstakademiet at Bergen.[1]
He published four novels: Eit vintereventyr ("A Winter Story", 2008), Fiolinane ("The Violins", 2010), Bovara (2012), and Songfuglen ("The Songbird", 2013), all on the publishing house Det Norske Samlaget.[2]
He was awarded the Nynorsk Literature Prize for "The Violins"[3] and Stig Sæterbakken's memorial prize for his three first novels.[4] He was also awarded the Bokhandelens forfatterstipend in 2013, a grant for writers by the Norwegian Booksellers Association.[5]
Leikvoll was open about living with a brain tumor a big part of his life.[6] He died on 1 August 2014.[5]
