Poet and novelist Lars Amund Vaage was born in 1952, grew up on a farm in western Norway and trained as a classical pianist. His fiction includes the award-winning novel Syngja ( Sing , 2012) about a writer father and his autistic speechless daughter, the short-story collection Den vesle pianisten ( The little pianist , 2017), and Det uferdige huset ( The unfinished house , 2020). Among other awards he has won the Gyldendal Prize, the Nynorsk Literature Prize and the Dobloug Prize for his life’s work.