
Lars Saabye Christensen is a gifted storyteller, a narrator who is imaginative, but equally down to earth. His realism alternates between poetic image and ingenious incident, conveyed in supple metropolitan language and slang that never smacks of the artificial or forced. His heroes possess a good deal of self-irony. Indeed, critics have drawn parallels with the black humour of Woody Allen. But beneath the liveliness of his portrayal melancholy always lurks in the books. Since his début in 1976 Saabye Christensen has written ten collections of poetry, five collections of short stories and twelve novels. His great break through came with the novel Beatles in 1984. The book store sale of over 200,000 copies of the Norwegian edition has made this one of the greatest commercial successes in Norway, and it was voted the best novel of the last 25 years by Dagbladet's readers in 2006.
Series
Books

Visning
2009

The Half Brother
A Novel
2001

Echoes of the City
2017

Stedsans
Noveller
2013

Ingens
Noveller
1992

Byens spor
Jesper og Trude
2021

Noen Som Elsker Hverandre
Noveller
1999

Amatøren
1977

Den Misunnelige Frisøren
Noveller
1997

Byens Spor
Skyggebogen
2019

Bly
1990

Min kinesiske farmor
Et portrett
2020

Etter karnevalet - dikt
2014

Sneglene
1987

Bisettelsen
2008

Herman
1988

The Joker
1981

Beatles
1984

Gutten Som Ville Være En Av Gutta
1993

Signaler '93
Cappelens årlige litterære revy
1993

Billettene
Roman
1980

Friendship
Echoes of the City II
2018

Oscar Wildes heis
noveller
2004

Vrakeren
2023

Maskeblomstfamilien
2003

Odpływ
2012

Historien om Gly
1976

Saabyes Circus
2006

Magnet
roman
2015

Kargo
Dikt
2016

Bernhard Hvals forsnakkelser
Roman
2010

Norske stiler
2012

Jubel
1995

Modellen
2005

En tilfeldig nordmann
den fulle og hele sannheten om Gordon Mo
2021