Overview

• Ingvar Ambjørnsen died on July 19 at age 69, his passing confirmed by publisher Cappelen Damm and by his wife Gabriele Haefs on Facebook.
• Sorgen i St. Peter Ording, his final short story collection announced in June, is slated for release at the end of July and will appear posthumously.
• Ambjørnsen earned international acclaim for the Elling series, with the 2002 film adaptation receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
• After relocating from Larvik to Hamburg in the mid-1980s for love, he lived there for around four decades before returning to Norway in early 2025.
• A longtime smoker, he had been living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease since a 2009 diagnosis.