Erling Kittelsen (born 10 April 1946) is a

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poet,

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, playwright and translator. He made his literary debut in 1970 with the poetry collection ''Ville fugler''. Kittelsen was part of the poetic action group "Stuntpoetene" during the 1980s, along with

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, Arne Ruste, Thorvald Steen,

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, Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen and others. He was awarded the

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in 1982, the

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in 1990, and the

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 ...

in 2002.

Bibliography

* Wild birds (poems) 1970 * The tree arches (fable) 1973 * Between the rivers (7 stories) 1976 * Swing village (novel) 1977 * Long live the hull, rise from the junk (children book) 1979 * House in lockdown (biography) 1979 * Day and night at Le (poems) 1981 * Tiu (poetry cycle) 1982 * The wayward story about sollos, sealcats and a pocket of love in the sea (fable) 1983 * In this house (together with Paal-Helge Haugen, poems) 1984 * To tease a Guru, the story of a nameless seal) 1985 * Raka, the storyteller (fable) 1987 * Abiriel´s lion (play) 1988 * She (dialog with an Edda-poem, poetry cycle) 1989 * The spacedrifter (play) 1991 * Pit (fable) 1991 * Fable Vega (fable) 1992 * The house of the seven dolls (play) 1993 * Heaven, Lake (translation of He Dong together with the poet) 1994 * Oceans of moments (translation of Jamshed Masroor together with the poet) 1994 * Fleeing clouds (translating of Muniam Alfaker together with the poet) 1994 * In (48 poems) 1995 * Dainas (translation of Latvian folk-poems) 2006 * Otrap (A critical exposition or wondrous intervals during 46 positions of love, novel) 1998 * On the heaven (play) 2000 * The book of vision (translation of Muniam Alfaker together with Walid al-Kubaisi) 2001 * Vindkald (dialog with an Edda-poem) 2001 * The sail of Brage (dialog with a scaldic poem) 2003 * From vinehouse to mosque (translation together with Finn Thiesen, 5 Persien poets) 2003 * The rooster has crowed, the hero has done everything he had to do (poems, translated from Korean together with Vladimir Thikonov) 2004 * For Inanna (Enheduanna´s poem translated from Sumerian together with Jens Braarvig) * The receiver (poems) 2005 * Diamond mountains (translation of poems of the dying together with Vladimir Thikonov) 2006 * All that remains (biography) 2007 * When the world whispers (translations of san-stories together with Roger Avenstrup) 2008 * Don´t tell it (play) 2009 * The poem runs like a town (poetry cycle) 2010 * Selected poems (bilingual, Norwegian/English) 2012 * I, Jako (novel) 2013 * The sleeper (play) 2014

References

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