Cecilie Løveid (born 21 August 1951) is a Norwegian novelist, poet, playwright, and writer of children's books.

Personal life

Løveid was born in

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to ship's captain Erik Løveid and actress Ingrid Cecilie Meyer. She had a cohabiting relationship with musician Bjørn Ianke.

Career

Løveid made her literary debut in 1972, with the novel ''Most''. She received the ''Gyldendal Prize'' in 2001. Løveid's first play was the one-act ''Tingene, tingene'', published in the literary magazine ''

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'' in 1976. In total she has written about thirty plays, librettos or other texts for radio or stage performance. In 2013 the poem " Punishment" (''Straff'') was printed in ''

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'', as "This Week's Poem", on 8 April. In an interview with the newspaper she said that the poem is about Breivik, and that she has no opinion about the verdict of his trial—because that is outside the scope of the poem. The poem starts with "I am glad that he got the punishment that he got. As

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known, he will be led by the hand, from grave to grave." It ends with "Therefore, and even if he does all of this, it will be calm/quiet."

Awards

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 w ...

1979 (shared with Wera Sæther) *

Prix Italia The Prix Italia is an international Television, Radio-broadcasting and Web award. It was established in 1948 by RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana (in 1948, RAI had the denomination RAI – Radio Audizioni Italiane) in Capri and is honoured with the ...

1982 *

Aschehoug Prize 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, bas ...

1984 *

Dobloug Prize The Dobloug Prize ( sv, Doblougska priset, no, Doblougprisen) is a literature prize awarded for Swedish and Norwegian fiction. The prize is named after Norwegian businessman and philanthropist Birger Dobloug (1881–1944) pursuant to his bequest. T ...

1990 (Shared with Johannes Heggland) *

Ibsen Prize The Norwegian Ibsen Award (Norwegian: ) is awarded to promote Norwegian drama and is awarded only to playwrights. History The prize is awarded by Skien municipality, the hometown of author and playwright Henrik Ibsen, and has been awarded every ...

1999 *''Gyldendal Prize'' 2001 * Brage Prize, open class 2017

References

External links

Author's homepage
1951 births Living people People from Eidsberg 20th-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian poets 20th-century Norwegian women writers 21st-century Norwegian women writers Norwegian children's writers Women librettists Norwegian dramatists and playwrights Norwegian women novelists Dobloug Prize winners Norwegian women children's writers Norwegian women dramatists and playwrights Norwegian women poets {{Norway-writer-stub