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Emmausprisen
Emmausprisen is the name of a Norwegian award founded in 1998 by the Norsk Forleggersamband and Norsk Bokhandlersamband. It is given to books that "in an outstanding manner conveys and confirms the Christian faith and Christian values." Past winners include Johannes Heggland, Peter Halldorf, Edvard Hoem, Max Lucado, Henri Nouwen, Janette Oke, Kirsten Sødal, and Lars Amund Vaage Lars Amund Vaage was born in 1952 at Sunde, Kvinnherad on the west coast of Norway, and studied classical piano at the Bergen Music Conservatory. He made his literary debut in 1979 with the novel Exercise Cold Winter, and has since published award-w .... References Norwegian literary awards {{lit-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Nouwen
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen (January 24, 1932 – September 21, 1996) was a Dutch Catholic priest, professor, writer and theologian. His interests were rooted primarily in psychology, pastoral ministry, spirituality, social justice and community. Over the course of his life, Nouwen was heavily influenced by the work of Anton Boisen, Thomas Merton, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh, and Jean Vanier. After nearly two decades of teaching at academic institutions including the University of Notre Dame, Yale Divinity School and Harvard Divinity School, Nouwen went on to work with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities at the L'Arche Daybreak community in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Biography Early life Henri Nouwen was born in Nijkerk, the Netherlands on January 24, 1932. He was the oldest of four children born to Laurent J. M. Nouwen and Maria Nouwen (née Ramselaar). Nouwen's father was a tax lawyer and his mother worked as a bookkeeper for her family's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Heggland
Johannes Heggland (29 June 1919 – 24 January 2008) was a Norwegian novelist, short story and children's literature writer, playwright, and elected official with the Centre Party (Norway), Centre Party. He is most commonly associated with two of his historic plays ''Mostraspelet'' and ''Håkonarspelet – Kongen med gullhjelmen''. Biography Johannes Andreas Martin Heggland was born at Tysnes in Hordaland, Norway. His parents, Vermund Heggland (1872–1945) and Elisabeth Marie Magdalene Nerhus (1877–1956), were farmers. He grew up as the youngest of 11 children in a family with a vivid oral tradition. He participated in local politics for nearly 30 years. Heggland was mayor in Tysnes from 1956 to 1959 and 1968 to 1971, and served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway during the term 1958–1961. He was chairman of Norwegian Authors' Union from 1982 to 1985 and member of the Nordic Council's literary prize committee from 1983 to 1986. He was also a mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Halldorf
Peter Halldorf (born 21 June 1958) is a Swedish Pentecostal pastor, self-taught theologian, and writer. He is known for exploring Patristics, particularly the Desert Fathers, within a Pentecostal context. His interest has led him to be dubbed "The Pentecostal Monk" and sometimes prays in Coptic monasteries. He is a third-generation Pentecostal preacher who became interested in the Desert Fathers out of concerns Pentecostalism could fall into worldliness or shallowness. He also found an ultimate "gentleness" in much of the Desert Fathers' stories. Halldorf has both written about and been influenced by the Flodberg Circle, an early 20th-century Swedish circle of people interested in mysticism. Halldorf is additionally a two-time winner of the Emmausprisen Emmausprisen is the name of a Norwegian award founded in 1998 by the Norsk Forleggersamband and Norsk Bokhandlersamband. It is given to books that "in an outstanding manner conveys and confirms the Christian faith and Christian v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edvard Hoem
Edvard Hoem (born 10 March 1949) is a Norwegian novelist, dramatist, lyricist, psalmist and government scholar. He made his literary debut in 1969, with the poetry collection ''Som grønne musikantar''. He was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1974 for the novel ''Kjærleikens ferjereiser''. He was awarded the Melsom Prize in 2006, and the ''Peter Dass Prize'' in 2007 for the novel ''Mors og fars historie''. He received the ''Ibsen Prize'' in 2008 for the play ''Mikal Hetles siste ord''. Several of his books (''Kjærleikens ferjereiser'' (1974), ''Prøvetid'' (1984), ''Ave Eva'' (1987), ''Mors og fars historie'' (2005)) have been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize, but did not win this award. Hoem was the director of the theater, ''Teatret Vårt'' (in Molde) 1997–1999. He has translated at least eleven of Shakespeare's plays into Norwegian. Bibliography * ''Som grønne musikantar'' – Poems (1969) * ''Landet av honning og aske'' &n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Amund Vaage
Lars Amund Vaage was born in 1952 at Sunde, Kvinnherad on the west coast of Norway, and studied classical piano at the Bergen Music Conservatory. He made his literary debut in 1979 with the novel Exercise Cold Winter, and has since published award-winning novels, short stories and collections of poetry, and a long essay on the art of storytelling, Sorrow and Song, 2016. In 1995 he had a definitive breakthrough in Norway with the Critics’ Prize-winning novel Rubato. In 2012, his acclaimed novel Sing, based on his experience of being the parent of a severely autistic child, was a national bestseller, winning the national Brage Prize and nominated for the Critics’ Prize. It has since become a classic. “The one to whom I write this cannot read.” That is the opening sentence of Sing. It is also the key to the way this established novelist needs to find in order to tell his life-changing story, which for many years and many different reasons he did not think would be possible. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Max Lucado
Max Lucado (born January 11, 1955) is an American author "Lucado set a record by concurrently placing seven different Word titles on the CBA hardcover bestseller list in March and April 1997. In 1994, Lucado became the only author to have 11 of his 12 books in print simultaneously appear on paperback, hardcover, and children’s CBA bestseller lists. A-Max Lucado title has appeared on the CBA hardcover bestseller list every month for the last seven years." and minister at Oak Hills Church (formerly the Oak Hills Church of Christ) in . Life Lucado was born in |
Janette Oke
Janette Oke (née Steeves; born February 18, 1935) (pronounced "oak") is a Canadian author of inspirational fiction. Her books are often set in a pioneer era and centered on female protagonists. Her first novel, ''Love Comes Softly'', was published by Bethany House in 1979. , more than 75 others have followed. The first novel of her ''Canadian West'' series, ''When Calls the Heart'' (1983), became the basis of the current television series of the same name. Biography Janette Steeves was born in Champion, Alberta, to Canadian prairie farmers Fred and Amy (née Ruggles) Steeves, during the Great Depression years. Oke graduated from Mountain View Bible College in Didsbury, Alberta, where she met her future husband, Edward Oke, who later became the president of that college. The Okes have four children, including a set of twins. Oke's daughter, Laurel Oke Logan, has co-written books with her. Oke is a committed Evangelical Christian. She has written many books about her faith. Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Sødal
Kirsten Sødal (14 June 1935 – 22 February 2022) was a Norwegian author who wrote several children's books, including ''Bestefar i spøkelsesbyen'' (Grandfather in the Ghost town) and the ''Birkebeinerbarn'' series. She also worked on school work books ''På Sporet'' (On Track). Early life Kirsten Sødal (born Knudsen) was born in the coastal town Kristiansand in Norway. When she was five years old, World War II broke out. This influenced her writing greatly. Her father was a part of the Norwegian resistance movement The Norwegian resistance (Norwegian: ''Motstandsbevegelsen'') to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945. It took several forms: *Asserting the legitimacy of the exiled government, ... and contributed by writing secret newspapers with true news. She wrote small stories and poems her entire life. Bibliography Her works include: ''Bestefar I spøkelsesbyen'', the ''Birkebeinerbarn'' series, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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