# Kurt Aust

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{{Short description|Danish-Norwegian writer (born 1955)}}
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| name = Kurt Østergaard
| image = Forfatteren Kurt Aust foran Løvøykapellet på Løvøya i Horten. Han skrev forestillingen som ble til Løvøyspelet (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Aust in 2006
| pseudonym = Kurt Aust
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|12|6|df=y}}
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| occupation = Author, novelist
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| genre = Crime
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'''Kurt Aust''' is a [pseudonym](/source/pseudonym) for '''Kurt Østergaard''' (born 6 December 1955), a Danish-Norwegian author and freelance writer.<ref>[http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/kultur/forfattere/3647639.html Kurt Aust in NRK]</ref><ref>[http://www.dagbladet.no/kontekst/15434.html Kurt Aust in  Dagbladet Authors]</ref><ref>[http://www.aftenposten.no/alex/litterat/forfatte/austkurt.htm Kurt Aust in Manager Alex]</ref>

Østergaard trained as a [teacher](/source/teacher). He has been living in [Horten](/source/Horten) in Norway since 1982.

Østergaard debuted using the name Aust as a novelist in 1999. Prior to this, he had written the script for a historically based cartoon on the slave ship [Fredensborg](/source/Fredensborg_(slave_ship)).

He has written several historical crime novels based on [Denmark–Norway](/source/Denmark%E2%80%93Norway) around the beginning of the 18th century. The main characters in these novels are Professor Thomas af Boueberg of Copenhagen University and his Dr. Watson equivalent, the considerably less brilliant Norwegian Petter Hortten.

In 2006 he published his first contemporary novel, the thriller ''De usynlige brødre'' (''The Invisible Brothers'') (translated into 8 languages) and his first children's book ''Kasper & Måns. Den store kaosdagen'' (''Kasper & Måns. The Great Day of Chaos'').

Kurt Østergaard is married to the artist [Kin Wessel](/source/Kin_Wessel) (Ann-Carin Wessel). She has co-illustrated the cartoon about Fredensborg and the children's book ''Kasper & Måns. Den store kaosdagen. ''

== Bibliography ==
*1997: ''Slaveskipet Fredensborg'' (cartoons, with [Kin Wessel](/source/Kin_Wessel) and Leif Salvesen)
*1999: ''Vredens dag'' (''Day of Wrath'')
*2001: ''Den tredje sannhet'' (''The Third Truth'', crime novel)
*2003: ''Hjemsøkt '' (''Afflicted'', crime novel)
*2004: ''Kongefrykt'' (''A King's Fear'', crime novel)
*2006: ''De usynlige brødre'' (''The Invisible Brothers'', crime novel)
*2006: ''Kasper & Måns. Den store kaosdagen'' (''Kasper & Måns. The Great Day of Chaos'', children's book, with Kin Wessel)
*2008: ''Kaos og øyeblikkets renhet'' (''Chaos and the Purity of the Moment'', crime novel)
*2009: ''Hevnens alkymi'' (''The Alchemy of Revenge'')
*2010: ''Symboler & demoner'' (''Symbols and Demons'')

== Awards ==
* [Aschehougs Debutant Endowment](/source/%3Ano%3AAschehougs_debutantstipend) 1999, for ''Vredens dag''
* [Riverton Prize](/source/Riverton_Prize) 2003, for ''Hjemsøkt''
* [Glass Key award](/source/Glass_Key_award) 2004, for ''Hjemsøkt''
* [Sølvkniven - Randaberg crimeprize](/source/S%C3%B8lvkniven_-_Randaberg_crimeprize) 2019, for ''Udyr''

==External links==
*[http://aschehougagency.no/Authors/Aschehoug/Aschehoug-Fiction/Aust-Kurt Kurt Aust at Aschehoug Agency]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110927170403/http://www.aschehoug.no/forfattere/alfabetisk/vis?contentItemId=650144 Kurt Aust at Aschehoug Publishing House]
*{{YouTube|Yy-Y5C1soXw|''Hevnens alkymi''}} (Norwegian)

==References==
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Category:Living people
Category:People from Ikast-Brande Municipality
Category:Norwegian crime fiction writers
Category:20th-century Norwegian novelists
Category:21st-century Norwegian novelists
Category:Danish emigrants to Norway
Category:Danish crime fiction writers
Category:Writers of historical mysteries
Category:20th-century pseudonymous writers
Category:21st-century pseudonymous writers

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