Gaarder was natural inside Oslo, Norway, into a pedagogic personal. He exposed Scandinavian languages and theology at the University of Oslo. Awhile, prior to launching his writing career, he taught philosophy.

His better known operate is the novel ''Sophie's World, subtitled A Novel about the History of Philosophy (ISBN 0425152251). This popular operate has been translated into fifty-3 languages; there are twenty-six million copies withwithin print, sustaining 3 million copies sold in Germany alone.

Around 1997, he established the Sophie Prize together with his married woman Siri Dannevig. This prize is an international environment & development prize (USD 100,000 = 77,000 €), awarded annually. These are known as fallowing a novel Sophie's Globe.

List of Works
Diagnosen og andre noveller (A Diagnosing & More Stories) (1986) Froskeslottet (A Frog Castle) (1988) Kabalmysteriet (A Solitaire Mystery) (1990) ISBN 042515999X Sofies verden'' (Sophie's Globe) (1991) ISBN 0425152251 Julemysteriet (A Christmas Mystery) (1992) ISBN 0374123292 we personally et speil, i nut gåte (Across the Glass, Darkly) (1993) ISBN 0753806738 Hallo? Er det noen her? (Hullo? Is Anybody There?) (1996) ISBN 0374329486 Vita Brevis (Brief Life) (besides appeared inside English when That Equivalent Flower) (1996) ISBN 0753804611 Maya (1999) ISBN 0753811464 Sirkusdirektørens datter (A Ringmaster's Girl) (2001) Appelsinpiken (A Orangish Girl) (2004) ISBN 0297849042