Sophie's World

Sophie's World

First edition (Norwegian)
Author	Jostein Gaarder
Original title	Sofies verden
Country	Norway
Language	Norwegian
Genre	Philosophical novel
Publisher	Aschehoug
Publication date	5 December 1991
Published in English	1994
Media type	Print (hardcover & paperback) and audiobook (English, unabridged CD & download)
Pages	518 pp
ISBN	978-1-85799-291-5 978-1-4272-0087-7 978-1-4272-0086-0
OCLC	246845141
LC Class	PT8951.17.A17

Sophie's World (Norwegian: Sofies verden) is a 1991 novel by Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder. It follows Sophie Amundsen, a Norwegian teenager, who is introduced to the history of philosophy as she is asked "Who are you?" in a letter from an unknown philosopher.^[1] The nonfictional content of the book aligns with Bertrand Russell's The History of Western Philosophy.^[2]

Sophie's World became a best-seller in Norway and won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1994. The English translation was published in 1995, and the book was reported to be the best-selling book in the world that year. By 2011, the novel had been translated into fifty-nine languages, with over forty million print copies sold.^[3] It is one of the most commercially successful Norwegian novels outside of Norway, and has been adapted into a film and a PC game.