Award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard thinks Newfoundlanders are fat … at least based on some observations he made at a restaurant in St. Anthony, on the island's Northern Peninsula.

His comments were published in an article he wrote for The New York Times on Wednesday.

It's part of a series called "My Saga," where Knausgaard visits sites of Norwegian significance in North America.

Knausgaard's first stop was Newfoundland in December, to see the Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows, on the Northern Peninsula.

Along the way, he stayed in nearby St. Anthony and had a meal at Jungle Jim's, a local chain restaurant.

"Everyone in the place, except the waiter, was fat, some of them so fat that I kept having to look at them. I had never seen people that fat before," he wrote in The New York Times.

"The strange thing was that none of them looked as if they were trying to hide their enormous girth; quite the opposite, several people were wearing tight T-shirts with their big bellies sticking out proudly."

Knausgaard also wrote that he couldn't figure out the menu, with "all those chicken wings and barbecue."

He settled on a spaghetti dish.

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"It consisted mainly of cheese, and tasted like something I could have cooked myself, back when I was still a student and would mix myself something out of whatever was in the fridge," he wrote.