Jostein Gaarder

Jostein Gaarder (born August 8, 1952) is a Norwegian author of novels, short stories, and children's books.

Gaarder was born in Oslo, Norway, into a pedagogical family. He studied Scandinavian languages and theology at the University of Oslo. For a while, before launching his writing career, he taught philosophy.

His best known work is the novel Sophie's World, subtitled A Novel about the History of Philosophy (ISBN 0425152251). This popular work has been translated into forty-five languages; there are twenty million copies in print.

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