Harstad is also a playwright , and four of his works was published in 2008 as '' Bsider '' ( ' B-sides ' ) . In late 2008 Harstad was hired as an in-house playwright at the National Theatre of Norway , as the first to hold such a position . During his time at the National Theatre he started working on an extensive two part play which was published in 2010 as '' Osv . '' ( ' Etc. ' ) . The play , which in its Norwegian edition is over 500 pages long , is set in 1994 and centers around an American family whose relationship is falling apart . The father , a Vietnam War veteran , suffers a nervous breakdown more than two decades after his homecoming and moves into the park at Constitution Gardens in Washington D.C. , next to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall . The daughter struggles in London , after the loss of her husband and the son is a war photographer , covering conflicts in Europe and Africa . The Bosnian War , the first Chechen war and the Rwandan genocide plays a big part in the play , both as a setting and as examples of growing conflicts in the mid-90 's . For this play , Harstad received , in 2014 , the Norwegian Ibsen Award . Also , he was nominated for another Brage Prize Award
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Johan Harstad