An exceptional fellow. A fathers story

An Exceptional fellow is an unsentimental and powerful story of a child with multiple disabilities and his family. The boy is Torgeir who is now 39 years old. He is tough, another kind of Viking. The book tells the story of his personal dramatic journey through life, with the help of family, professionals and society in large. He has achieved a life of dignity, mastery and meaning on his own terms. An appeal to our sense of collective social responsibility for the most vulnerable among us runs like a red thread throughout the book.


Svein Olav Kolset is Torgeirs father and professor in nutrition at the University of Oslo. He has published a series of articles and chronicles about persons with disabilities and the particular challenges they encounter