Britt Karin Larsen (born 16 April 1945) is a Norwegian poet, author and
government scholar
Government scholar (Norwegian, ''statsstipendiat'') is a position awarded by the Parliament of Norway upon the recommendation of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education and Research and funded directly over the State budget of Nor ...
. Larsen debuted as a poet in 1978 with ''5 mg blues og andre dikt'', and has published many poetry collections and novels since. She is best known for her novel trilogy about
Norwegian and Swedish Travellers
The Norwegian and Swedish Romanisæl Travellers ( no, romanifolket, tatere, sigøynere; sv, resande, zigenare, tattare; rmu, romanisæl, romanoar, rom(m)ani, tavringer/ar, tattare) are a group or branch of the Romani people who have been resid ...
, ''De som ser etter tegn'' (1997), ''De usynliges by'' (1998) and ''Sangen om løpende hester'' (1999). The trilogy has been called a literary monument for Romany people in Norway. Larsen was given the Norsk PEN's highest freedom prize, the
Ossietzky-prisen, in 2000.
Bibliography
*''5 mg blues og andre dikt'' – poem (1978)
*''Kniven skal du ta vare på'' – poem (1981)
*''Før stengetid'' – poem (1983)
*''Hvorfor venter vi her?'' – poem (1986)
*''Du er likevel til. Brev til et barn som ikke ble født'' – letters (1989)
*''Ingenting er helt som før'' –
children's book
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.
Children's ...
(1990)
*''I ly for regnet'' – novel (1990)
*''Ørkenhagen'' – poem (1991)
*''Engang var vi som vinden'' – prose (1991)
*''Det nye havet'' – Children's book (1991) (Illustrated by Torill Marø Henrichsen)
*''Alexanders hemmelighet'' – Children's book (1992)
*''Ormens øye'' – novel (1993)
*''Reise om høsten'' – novel (1994)
*''Som snøen faller'' – novel (1995)
*''Munnen i gresset'' – novel (1996)
*''De som ser etter tegn'' – novel (1997)
*''De usynliges by'' – novel (1998)
*''Sangen om løpende hester'' – novel (1999)
*''Å finne en skog'' – novel (2000)
*''Vesle-Hjalmar og kilden'' – Children's book (2001) (Coauthor Liv Borge. Illustrated by Torill Marø Henrichsen)
*''Et annet folk'' – novel (2001)
*''Duggpunkt ved daggry'' – novel (2001)
*''Det kan komme fine dager'' – novel (2002)
*''Fortellinger om kjærlighet'' – novel (2003)
*''Som kjærlighet, nesten. En bok om alkohol'' – prose (2004) (Coauthor Tor Georg Danielsen)
*''Den humpete veien til førerkortet'' – non-fiction (2007)
*''Vesle- Hjalmar og vinterslottet'' – children's book with Liv Andersen (2009)
*''Det vokser et tre i Mostamägg'' – novel (2009)
*''Himmelbjørnens skog'' – novel (2010)
*''Som steinen skinner'' – novel (2011)
*''Den lykkelige vandreboka'' – non-fiction (2011)
*''Før snøen kommer'' – novel (2012)
*''Det synger i lauvet'' – novel (2013)
*''Slik treet faller'' – novel (2013)
*''Kaldere mot natten'' – novel (2015)
*''Av lys er du kommet'' – novel (2017)
Prizes
*
Gyldendal's Endowment Gyldendal's Endowment was a literature prize which was awarded in the period 1934–1995 by the Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. The prize was awarded to significant authors, regardless of which publisher the author was associated wi ...
1993
*Sarpsborgprisen 1998
*Hedmark fylkeskommunes kulturpris 1998
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Ossietzky-prisen 2000
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Riksmålsforbundets litteraturpris 2001
*Amalie Skram-prisen 2001
*Dobloug-prisen 2014
References
External links
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NRK Authors
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Norwegian children's writers
20th-century Norwegian poets
1945 births
Living people
Norwegian women poets
Norwegian women children's writers
20th-century Norwegian novelists
21st-century Norwegian novelists
21st-century Norwegian women writers
20th-century Norwegian women writers