Robert Ferguson (author) explained

Robert Ferguson
Birth Name:Robert Ferguson
Birth Date:1948 6, df=y
Birth Place:Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England
Occupation:Author, playwright and translator

Robert Ferguson (born June 2, 1948) is an English-born historian, novelist, dramatist and translator who specialises in the history and culture of the Scandinavian countries, and Norway in particular.

Life and work

Robert Ferguson was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, and grew up in Blackpool, Lancashire. Between 1968-1976 he travelled widely in the UK and worked at numerous jobs, including postman, builder's labourer, trawler fisherman, hospital porter and factory hand. He also spent periods living in France and Denmark. Between 1976 and 1980 he studied Scandinavian literature at University College London, specialising in Norwegian literature.[1] In 1980 he made his debut as a dramatist with an adaptation for BBC Radio 3 of Knut Hamsun’s novel Hunger. In 1983 Ferguson was awarded a one-year State Scholarship by the Norwegian government. He has been a permanent resident of Norway since that time. He became a Norwegian citizen in 2018.

Ferguson has written ten original radio plays and adapted for radio works by Knut Hamsun, Henrik Ibsen, Halldor Laxness, A.R. Luria and Elmore Leonard, all for the BBC. For his original dramas he has twice won Giles Cooper Awards for Best Radio Drama of the Year. He is the author of two novels, Siste kjærlighet and Fleetwood, published in Norway only.

Enigma. The Life of Knut Hamsun, won the University of London’s J.G. Robertson Prize in 1987 and was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Best Biography in 1987.[2] Enigma, under its Norwegian title Gåten Knut Hamsun, was dramatised as a 6-part television series in 1996 by NRK (Norwegian State Broadcasting)[3] and was the basis for a . In 1997 Ferguson selected, translated and introduced Tales of Love and Loss, a collection of twenty of Hamsun’s short stories. He has also translated books by numerous Norwegian writers, including Jo Nesbo and Lars Mytting, whose Norwegian Wood. Chopping, Stacking And Drying Wood The Scandinavian Way won the British Book Industry Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 2016.[4]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Robert Ferguson . Pan Macmillan . 2024-10-16.
  2. Web site: Kirsch . Jonathan . Book Review : Hamsun Biographer Looks Beyond Fascist Tendencies . Los Angeles Times . 1987-05-28 . 2024-10-16.
  3. Web site: Gåten Knut Hamsun . NRK TV . nb . 2024-10-16.
  4. Web site: Lars Mytting awarded the British Book Industry Award for best Non-Fiction book 2016 . NORLA . 2016-05-11 . 2024-10-16.
  5. Web site: Kakutani . Michiko . BOOKS OF THE TIMES; 2 Views of Henry Miller, One Harsh and One Not . The New York Times . 1991-05-17 . 2024-10-16.
  6. Web site: Noel-Todd . Jeremy . Observer review: The Short, Sharp Life of TE Hulme by Robert Ferguson . the Guardian . 2002-12-08 . 2024-10-16.
  7. Web site: Ferguson . Robert . Life lessons from Kierkegaard by Robert Ferguson . Pan Macmillan . 2013-09-12 . 2024-10-16.
  8. Web site: Abend . Lisa . A British Expat in Norway Gets Beyond the Scandinavian Stereotypes . The New York Times . 2017-07-12 . 2024-10-16.
  9. Web site: A Cabin in the Mountains by Robert Ferguson . TLS . 2020-03-11 . . 2024-10-16.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Robert Ferguson (author)".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2025, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.