'Tarjei Vesaas could write books which breathed the almost mystical union between man and countryside.' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Probably the greatest Norwegian writer of his time.' - THE SCOTSMAN 'Vessaas achieves his effects with a powerful economy of words and his style is graphic and highly evocative.' - THE GUARDIAN 'Vesaas conjures brilliantly from the sombre north.' - TLS
TARJEI VESAAS was born in 1897 in the remote rural Telemark district of Norway, where he spent most of his life. Throughout his life he published several novels, volumes of poetry and a book of short stories which was awarded an international prize at Venice in 1952. He was awarded several other prizes and was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in 1964, 1968 and again in 1969. He died in 1970, his reputation as the leading Nordic writer firmly established.