Øyvind Vågnes

Vågnes was born in Brattvåg on 4 August 1972.^[1] He made his literary debut in 2003 with the novel Ingen skal sove i natt.^[1] He was awarded the Nynorsk Literature Prize in 2005, for the novel Ekko.^[2] He was co-editor of the magazine Ekfrase - Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. Among his non-fiction works are Zaprudered : the Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture from 2011, for which he was awarded the Peter C. Rollins Book Award, and Den dokumentariske teikneserien from 2014.^[1]

Further novels are the science fiction novel Sone Z from 2014, about a future fictional surveillance society. In his satirical novel Vesaas from 2017, the protagonist works with writing a biography about Tarjei Vesaas. His last novel was Ei verd utan hestar from 2022.^[1]

Vågnes died from lung fibrosis at Haukeland hospital in Bergen, on 7 January 2025, at the age of 52.^[1][3]

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