Jakob Ejersbo was born in Aalborg in 1968. He trained as a journalist, and his breakthrough came with the 2002 novel Nordkraft, which won the Golden Bay prize in 2003. He died in 2008 at the age of forty, after a ten-month battle with cancer.
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'This fine epic of loneliness and alienation in a beautiful land that seems to be sinking shows that he was a writer of huge talent' Kate Saunders, The Times. 'The first part of a powerful trilogy' Charlotte Vowden, Daily Express. 'There is more to contemporary Scandinavian fiction than thrillers' Michael Arditti, Daily Mail.
