PakkisKhalid Hussain is a Norwegian Pakistani writer and film producer. Hussain was born in 1969 in Pakistan, and moved to Norway without his parents in 1975. He came to attention after writing the book Pakkis in 1986 when he was 16 years old. Drawing upon his own life experiences, Hussain voiced in Pakkis the unique challenges of many young immigrants in Norway. In this novel, we follow the story of the teenager Sajjad as he tries to shape his own identity

In this sense it is a much more universal work demonstrating how an indigenous culture reacts to a dominant culture and what happens over the course of a relatively short period

First published in Swedish as Den Lidande Människan

Lina has a crush on Larin

The mysterious nature of his death suggested intriguing questions about Lars Johnson himself and the history of Swedish commoners at home and abroad

hears their stories and attempts to make sense of them

The book is the result of research on health and suffering conducted by the Department of Caring Science

PhD (1920-2004)

a young social scientist who works for a newspaper in Oslo

the Swedish immigrant Lars Johnson left his Minnesota farm and walked out into the early morning chill

I encountered one gem after another which deepended my understanding

and culture – aimed at making state authorities in Sweden and Norway aware of the intricacies and value of the indigenous culture of the Sámi

Drawing upon his own life experiences