Can i get a profile or biography of Jostein Gaarder, author of “Sophie’s World” please?

Question

I represent an organization that has translated Jostein Gaarder’s “Sophie’s World” into the Malay language. In line with our promotion for the book, we would like to have a profile or biography of the author himself, but it seems that neither the original publisher (Aschehoug) or the internet can provide that information! I would appreciate it if you can email me the information if you have or point me in the right direction. Thank you!

Answer 1

Try these sites below, please (but please note - you can't be e-mailed when your user profile doesn't permit it.)

A sample from the first:
"Jostein Gaarder
b. 1952 Oslo, Norway

A former philosophy teacher whose best-known novel, Sophie's World, was a surprise international best-seller, Jostein Gaarder is one of the most popular of contemporary Scandinavian authors. With over 20 million copies of Sophie in print and with an entire industry having sprung up around that one book -- there's a movie, a musical, a boardgame, even a CD-ROM based on the book -- he is presumably also one of the wealthiest.
What's so deucedly odd about this is that Gaarder's books usually mix in a hefty dose of philosophical pedagogy along with the story. Sophie's World is subtitled A Novel about the History of Philosophy and the book often seems closer to being a primer on western philosophical thought than a novel -- so much so that it has become a popular textbook for undergraduate philosophy courses. This hardly seems consistent with "popular" fiction."

and from the second:

"Jostein Gaarder (born August 8, 1952 in Oslo) is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often uses metafiction in his works, writing stories within stories.
Gaarder was born into a pedagogical family. His best known work is the novel Sophie's World, subtitled A Novel about the History of Philosophy (ISBN 0-425-15225-1). This popular work has been translated into fifty-three languages; there are over thirty million copies in print,[1] with three million copies sold in Germany alone.
In 1997, he established the Sophie Prize together with his wife Siri Dannevig. This prize is an international environment and development prize (USD 100,000 = 77,000 €), awarded annually. It is named after the novel."

Answer 2

Here are some websites I found:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jostein_Gaarder

http://members.aol.com/wpwinter/nordland/gaarder.htm
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299907/bio

http://www.answers.com/topic/jostein-gaarder

http://www.calculo.co.uk/authors/gaarder.html

Answer 3

There's an article about him on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jostein_Gaarder

Answer 4

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