Alf van der Hagen

Alf van der Hagen (b 1962, Norway) is a Norwegian author who writes biographical books based on interviews with his subjects.

He won the Norwegian Critics’ prize for the best non-fiction book with Dag Solstad: Uskrevne memoarer (2013) and was nominated for the Brage Prize for Kjell Askildsen: Et liv (2014).

Van der Hagen has been co-editor of the Vagant magazine, an editor for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s Kritikertorget programme and the Norwegian Book Clubs, and editor-in-chief and CEO of the newspaper Morgenbladet. His most recent book is Det endelige bildet: En samtale med Bjørn Ransve. (2022).