Many Scandinavian Writers Who Had Made Their

The Myth About Me As A Footballer Has Grown: I Am Now The Lost Maradona Of Norway.

At Nineteen I Was Pretty Sure I Was Going To Be A Professional Soccer Player. At That Time I Played For One Of The Norwegian Premier Leagues. But I Tore Ligaments In Both Knees, So I Started Studying Business Administration And Economics And Became A Financial Analyst, And I Worked At A Brokerage Firm As A Stockbroker.

For Many Years, It Seemed As If Nothing Changed In Norway. You Could Leave The Country For Three Months, Travel The World, Through Coups D'etat, Assassinations, Famines, Massacres And Tsunamis, And Come Home To Find That The Only New Thing In The Newspapers Was The Crossword Puzzle.

All Interesting Heroes Have An Achilles Heel.

You Can't Visit Readers Where You Think They Are. You Have To Invite Them Home To Where You Are And Try To Lure Them Into Your Universe. That's The Art Of Storytelling.