Photo: Andreas Bache-Wiig
In the press:
Monna Dithmer, Politiken, 16.03.2009
About «Then Silence» (as a printed play)
Tom Egil Hverven, Klassekampen, 21.02.2009
Therese Bjørneboe, Klassekampen, 02.03.2009
Inger Merete Hobbelstad, Dagbladet, 01.03.09
Iben Friis Jensen, Fyns Amts Newspaper, 20.02.2009
«This is a new playwright that we have not heard the last from! (…) As the somewhat older swede, Lars Noren, he knows how to hit where it hurts. He also knows the art of mixing the cards and creates a feeling of enhanced reality, as the Englishman Martin Crimp.»
Regarding «Man Without Purpose», Odeon Theatre, Paris,
Brigitte Salimo, Le Monde
«Without big words, his simplified language takes you further than you thought were possible, with sudden turns and varitions of intensity that creates a vast span of emotions that Claude Regy underscores.»
Regarding «Man Without Purpose», Odeon Theatre, Paris
Mathilde La Bardonnie, Liberation
«After Ibsen and Fosse, Arne Lygre plays with the spectators mind. Imagine a billionaire buying a fjord and building a new city on the property. Altogether in a mix of megalomania and utopian belief in the future (..) Arne Lygre is the name. Make a note of it.»
Regarding «Man Without Purpose», National Theatre, Oslo
Leif Zern, Dagens Nyheter
«Arne Lygre has definitely created his own style. His prose is like nothing else published in Norwegian. (..) I feel convinced that I´ve read one of this years best-written and most enigmatic novels.»
Regarding «A Last Face»
Tom Egil Hverven, Klassekampen
«There are plenty of allright books. However, how often does it happen that you read something that really makes an impression? Maybe not to often. Even stronger and more joyful is a meeting with the really good litterature, the litterature that makes a difference and leave a sharp and lasting impression in your memory. (..) I welcome many people to experience this novel.»
Regarding «A Last Face»
Anne Merethe K. Prinos, Aftenposten
With Claude Régy, Centre Pompidou. October 2007. Photo: Renaud Monfourny
Interviewed at Café Brandstrup and by the river in hometown Moss. Oktober 2006.
Both photos: Edmund Schilvold
Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris, September 2007.
Photo: Thomas Olsen
Reading House of Literature in Oslo, september 2008. Photo: Jorunn Solli.
Reading from «My Dead Man» in August 2009, in Norwegian.
Arne Lygre made his debut in 1998 with the play «Mother and Me and Men». Since then he has written six other plays, which has been staged and published in countrys around the world.
«Man Without Purpose» was directed by Claude Régy at Odeon Théâtre in Paris in 2007/08.
His new play, «I Disappear», will have its world premiere at La Colline Théâtre National in November 2011, directed by Stéphane Braunschweig.
Arne Lygre wrote his first short stories collection in 2004, «In Time», for which he got the prestigious Norwegian literary award Brageprisen. He has also written two novels, «A Last Face» and «My Dead Man», which both was very well recieved by the critics. He was awarded the literaty award Mads Wiels Nygaards’ Legacy in 2010.