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Erlend Loe
Erlend Loe at a literature festival in 2007
Born	May 24, 1969 (1969-05-24) (age 40) Trondheim, Norway
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Norwegian
Notable work(s)	Naive, Super L

Erlend Loe (born May 24, 1969 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian novelist. He worked at a psychiatric clinic, and was later a freelance journalist for Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen. Loe now lives and works in Oslo where in 1998 he co-founded Screenwriters Oslo - an office community for screenwriters.

In 1993 he debuted with the book Tatt av kvinnen, and a year later published a children's book, Fisken, about a forklift operator named Kurt. Loe has a distinctive style of writing which is often likened to naïve art. He often uses irony, exaggeration and humor. His children's books are illustrated by Kim Hiorthøy. Loe has recorded many of his books as Norwegian audiobooks.

His popular novel Naiv. Super has been translated into 18 languages: Latvian, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Danish, Icelandic, Dutch, Czech, German, Greek, Polish, Russian, Slovak, English, Italian, French, Portuguese and Serbian.

Bibliography

Novels

• Tatt av kvinnen (1993)
• Naive, Super (1996)
• L (1999)
• Fakta om Finland (2001)
• Doppler (2004)
• Volvo lastvagnar (2005)
• Muleum (2007)
• Stille dager i Mixing Part (2009)

Other works

• Fisken (1994), children's book
• Maria & José (1994), picture book
• Kurt blir grusom (1995), children's book
• Den store røde hunden (1996), children's book
• Kurt quo vadis? (1998), children's book
• Detektor (2000), film script
• Jotunheimen, bill.mrk. 2469 (2001), text to photographs by Bård Løken
• Kurt koker hodet (2003), play, also adapted into a children's book
• Pingvinhjelpen (2006), play
• Organisten (2006), with Petter Amundsen, non-fiction
• The Mischievous Russ/Den Fæle Russen" short story in Jørn Tomter's photography book The Norwegian Way