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Aschehougprisen
The Aschehoug Prize is published annually by the Norwegian publishing house Aschehoug. The Aschehoug Prize is awarded to Norwegian authors on the basis of the merit of a recent publication. It is awarded on merit, irrespective of the publisher, based on a binding recommendation from the Norwegian Critics Organization. The prize consists of a statuette of sculptor Ørnulf Bast and 100,000 kroner (2018). The monumental sculpture ''Evig Liv'' (=''Eternal Life'') which is the reference of the miniature statuette is to be found at ''Sehesteds plass'' in front of the publisher's main building in Oslo. Recipients of the Aschehoug Prize * 1973 – Stein Mehren * 1974 – Bjørg Vik * 1975 – Kjartan Fløgstad * 1976 – Karin Bang * 1977 – Knut Hauge * 1978 – Olav H. Hauge * 1979 – Ernst Orvil and Tor Åge Bringsværd * 1980 – Idar Kristiansen * 1981 – Jan Erik Vold * 1982 – Kjell Erik Vindtorn * 1983 – Arnold Eidslott * 1984 – Cecilie Løveid * 1985 – Edva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergljot Hobæk Haff
Bergljot Hobæk Haff (1 May 1925 – 12 February 2016) was a Norwegian educator and novelist. Biography Haff was born at Botne (now Holmestrand) in Vestfold, Norway. Her parents were Lars Hobæk (1883–1938) and Martha Aarvold (1895–1987). Both of her parents were educators. She graduated from the Sandefjord Gymnasium in 1943. In 1947, she graduated from Oslo lærerhøgskole (now Oslo University College) with a degree in education. Upon completing her education, she moved to Denmark and taught school for 24 years before returning to Oslo in 1972. She made her debut with the novel ''Raset'' in 1956. She has written both contemporary and historical novels. Her writing has been characterized by original narrative and often by poetical imagination. Her works have also featured both mythical and allegorical interpretation. Her novels have been translated into several languages including English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Lithuanian. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stein Mehren
Stein Mehren (16 May 1935 – 28 July 2017) was a Norwegian poet, essayist and playwright. He made his literary debut as poet with ''Gjennom stillheten en natt'' (1960). He wrote more than fifty books, mainly poetry."Stein Mehren" – ''Dagbladet'' (Retrieved on February 21, 2008) Background Mehren was born in , Norway to physician and dentist Haakon Mehren (1910–38) and Solveig Marie Klaveness Bjerke (1908–55). He was a nephew of merchant Martin Mehren (1905–2002). After graduating from secondary school in 1953, Mehren studied philosophy at the |
Bjørg Vik
Bjørg Vik (11 September 1935 – 7 January 2018) was a Norwegian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and journalist. Biography Bjørg Turid Vik was born in Oslo, Norway. Her parents were Sverre Thorbjørn Johansen (1903–1958) and Anna Sofie Marcussen (1902–1987). She grew up in the neighborhood of St. Hanshaugen in Oslo. She completed her ''examen artium'' at Hegdehaugen School in 1954 and attended the Journalist Academy in Oslo from 1955 to 1956. From 1956 to 1960, she was a journalist for the newspaper '' Porsgrunns Dagblad''. She made her literary debut in 1963 with the short story collection ''Søndag ettermiddag''. Further collections from the 1960s are ''Nødrop fra en myk sofa'' (1966) and ''Det grådige hjerte'' (1968). She also wrote five novels. Between 1988 and 1994 she published the semi-autobiographical Elsi Lund trilogy of novels about adolescence and maturity in postwar Oslo. The trilogy consists of ''Små nøkler store rom'' (1988), ''Poplene på St. Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knut Hauge (writer)
Knut Hauge (31 May 1911 – 13 April 1999) was a Norwegian writer. Hauge was born at Vestre Slidre in Oppland, Norway. He operated a farm in addition to writing a series of novels, children's books and plays. He also chaired the cultural society Noregs Ungdomslag from 1955 to 1959. His first novel was ''Krossen under Torfinnshø'' in 1948, and his last novel was ''Prolog til ei svunnen tid'' in 1989. In 1965, Hauge won the Sunnmørsprisen for his novel, ''Kross og kvitsymre''. He was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment (''Mads Wiel Nygaards legat'') in 1967, Aschehoug Prize (''Aschehougprisen'') in 1977 and Dobloug Prize (''Doblougprisen'') in 1986. Knut Hauge died during 1999. A bust of Hauge was installed at the Valdres Folkemuseum at Nord-Aurdal in Oppland Oppland is a former county in Norway which existed from 1781 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020. The old Oppland county bordered the counties of Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gro Dahle
Gro Dahle (born 15 May 1962) is a Norwegian poet and writer. Early life Dahle was born in Oslo, and is the daughter of businessman Øystein Dahle. She grew up in Tønsberg, Aruba and New Jersey. She began studying psychology and English literature at University of Oslo and got her B.A. She went to further study creative writing at Telemark University College. Career Dahle made her literary début in 1987 with ''Audiens'' (''Audience''), a collection of poetry. Since then Dahle has written over 50 books in different genres, poetry collections, three novels, three novellas, short stories, children' s theatre pieces, radio plays, essays and children's books. Several picture books for children arose from collaboration with her husband, Norwegian illustrator and author Svein Nyhus. Dahle has received several national awards for her work. In 1999 she was the official festival poet at the Bergen International Festival. In 2002 she won the Brage Prize for literature for ''Snill'' (' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldrid Lunden
Eldrid Lunden (born 5 October 1940) is a Norwegian poet, and 1996 became Norway's first professor in creative writing, at Telemark University College. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1989, and the Brage Prize honorary award in 2000. Lunden belonged to the circle surrounding the modernist literary magazine ''Profil''. She was born in Naustdal and took her cand.philol. degree at the University of Oslo. She is a sister of Kåre Lunden. Lunden married 1994 the Swedish literary scholar and poet Reidar Ekner and lived with him in Telemark till he died 2014. Awards *Nynorsk Literature Prize 1982 *Dobloug Prize 1989 * Aschehougprisen 1992 *Brage Prize The Brage Prize (Norwegian: ''Brageprisen'') is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation (''Den norske bokprisen''). The prize recognizes recently published Norwegian literature. The Brage Priz ... 2000 – honorary award * Swedish Academy Nordic Prize 2012 References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjartan Fløgstad
Kjartan Fløgstad (born 7 June 1944) is a Norwegian author. Fløgstad was born in the industrial city of Sauda in Ryfylke, Rogaland. He studied literature and linguistics at the University of Bergen. Subsequently, he worked for a period as an industrial worker and as a sailor before he debuted as a poet with his collection of poems titled ''Valfart'' (Pilgrimage) in 1968. He received the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for his 1977 novel '' Dalen Portland'' (Dollar Road). Other major works include ''Fyr og flamme'' (Fire and Flame), ''Kron og mynt'', ''Grand Manila'' and ''Grense Jakobselv''. Literary work Fløgstad initial prose work, ''Den hemmelege jubel'' (The Secret Exultation), was published in 1970. In 1972 he published the short story collection ''Fangliner'' (Ropes), where he encourages seaman and shift workers in heavy industry to make themselves heard in their own language, and the author's Marxist viewpoint became apparent. In the 1970s he also wrote two crime no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tor Fretheim
Tor Fretheim (13 May 1946 – 9 December 2018) was a Norwegian journalist and author of children's literature. Biography Fretheim was born at Asker in Akershus and grew up in Sandefjord. After graduating in 1965, he began studying at the University of Oslo. He studied journalism at the Journalisthøyskolen in Oslo from 1971 to 1973 and worked in the ''Aftenposten ( in the masthead; ; Norwegian for "The Evening Post") is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen) and estimated 1.2 million ...'' from 1974 to 1986. He made his literary debut in 1982 with ''Markus kjenner ikke Supermann''. He received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Best Children's Book in 1986 for ''Englene stanser ved Eventyrbrua''. In 1996, he received the "Fretheim Aschehougprisen" and in 1997 the "Kulturdepartementets litteraturpris". Several of Fretheim's books have been translated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Jacobsen (poet)
Rolf Jacobsen (8 March 1907 – 20 February 1994) was a Norwegian writer. Jacobsen could be said to be the first modernist writer in Norway. Jacobsen's career as a writer spanned more than fifty years. He is one of Scandinavia’s most distinguished poets, who launched poetic modernism in Norway with his first book, ''Jord og jern'' in 1933. Jacobsen's work has been translated into over twenty languages. The central theme in his work is the balance between nature and technology – he was called "the Green Poet" in Norwegian literature. Youth Rolf Jacobsen was born in Oslo (then called Kristiania), as the son of Martin Julius Jacobsen (1865–1944), who had completed both medical and dental school, and Marie (Nielsen) Jacobsen (1880–1953) a nurse. At the age of six he moved with his family to Åsnes, where Martin Jacobsen had obtained a post as a school dentist. Rolf was educated by his mother, who had completed one year of teacher's training. In 1920 he moved to Oslo and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Eidslott
Arnold Olav Eidslott (10 June 1926 – 19 April 2018) was a Norwegian poet. He was born in Ålesund, and worked as a telegraphic engineer for the whole of his working life. From 1986 to 2018 he was the poet laureate. Eidslott's Christian religion was central to his lyrics, and he was foremost in Norwegian religious literature. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. He died on 19 April 2018 at the age of 91. 's composition "''Underet'' in three parts, is based on Eidslott's poem of the same name. The parts that have been written are: "Krusifikset blør", "Josef av Arimateas klage" and "Den tomme grav". Bibliogra ...
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Jan Kjærstad
Jan Kjærstad (born 6 March 1953 in Oslo) is a Norwegian author. in Store norske leksikon Jan Kjærstad – utdypning in Store norske leksikon Kjærstad is a theology graduate from and the |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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