STOCKHOLM (AP) — Ingvar Ambjørnsen, a Norwegian author who mixed a sharp, even dark tone with humor and empathy in works that depicted the lives of the oppressed and vulnerable, has died, his publisher said. He was 69.
His life was silent resistance: writing and loving from the edges. The Norwegian Ingvar Ambjørnsen wrote for the people who are looking for and also finding the sidelines. Whether in Hamburg or in Wolfenbüttel.
Out of instinct, Ingvar Ambjørnsen wrote about all subjects, milieus and social types - for example in the highly tragicomic elling tetralogy. Now he has died: memory of a friend of a writer.