Lars Amund VaagePoet 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, he 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. The Red Place is Vaage's third poetry collection from Shearsman. Read More Read Less