Festival Les Boréales | Meeting with Lars Ramslie

Médiathèque de Pont-d'Ouilly, Place des Halles

[MEETING WITH LARS RAMSLIE] Lars Ramslie was born in 1974 in Tønsberg, Norway. His first novel, published in 1997, received the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas Award. With his powerful and distinctive voice, he is one of the most respected authors in the contemporary literary scene. "A Mountain, a Rifle, a Lake" is his seventh novel. Book summary: Norway, summer 1983. Lars grows up in the shadow of an extraordinary father: an adventurer who left the sea in adolescence, a womanizer, a heavy drinker, sometimes violent. Nevertheless, Lars sees him as a force of nature and loves him as …