Jan Erik Vold (born 18 October 1939) is a Norwegian

lyric poet Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also ''not'' equi ...

, jazz vocal reciter, translator and author.Store Norske Lexikon: Jan Erik Vold
/ref> He was a core member of the so-called "''Profil'' generation", the circle attached to the literary magazine ''

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''. Throughout his career as an artist, he has had the ability to reach the public, both with his poetry and his political views. He has contributed greatly to the renewal of Norwegian poetry, and created interest in lyrical poetry. Jan Erik Vold is currently living in

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. He was born in

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, the son of journalist

Ragnar Vold Ragnar Vold (22 November 1906 – 16 June 1967) was a Norwegian journalist, non-fiction writer and novelist. He was born in Kristiansund as a son of William Benjamin Hansen Vold (1874–1943) and Helga Askevold (1875–1930), both teachers. He ...

Career

He has won numerous awards, including the 1965

Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris Tarjei Vesaas's debutantpris is a prize awarded annually for the best first literary work in Norwegian. It is awarded by the Norwegian Authors' Union, and the organisation's 9-member Literary Caucus constitutes the jury for the prize. They ch ...

for his literary début, ''Mellom speil og speil'';

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 ...

in 1968; the

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 ...

in 1981; the Brage Prize for Poetry in 1993 and Honorary Award in 1997; the Gyldendal Prize in 2000; the

Anvil Award The Anvil Award ( no, Amboltprisen) is a Norwegian literary prize conferred by the association Friends of Olav H. Hauge (). The prize consists of NOK 10,000 and an artistically crafted "anvil" created by the sculptor Leif Gjerme. The Anvil Award is ...

in 2004; and he was nominated for the

Nordic Council's Literature Prize The Nordic Council Literature Prize is awarded for a work of literature written in one of the languages of the Nordic countries, that meets "high literary and artistic standards". Established in 1962, the prize is awarded every year, and is worth ...

in 1979 and 1999. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

in 2000.

Works

Poetry collections

*1965 ''mellom speil og speil'' (

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, Oslo) *1966 ''HEKT'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1966 "Istapptid" *1966 ''blikket'' (Kommet Forlag, Oslo) *1967 ''Svingstang'' (eget opptrykk i 700 eksemplarer) *1968 ''Mor Godhjertas glade versjon. Ja'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1969 ''Bo på Briskeby blues'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1969 ''kykelipi'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1970 ''Spor, snø'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1970 ''Bok 8: LIV'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1978 ''S'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1979 ''sirkel sirkel: boken om prins Adrians reise'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1987 ''Sorgen. Sangen. Veien'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1988 ''En som het Abel Ek'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1989 ''Elg'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1993 ''IKKE : skillingstrykk fra nittitallet'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1993 ''En sirkel is'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1995 ''Kalenderdikt'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1997 ''Ikke'' (illustrated by Steffen Kverneland) (

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, Oslo) *2000 ''I vektens tegn : 777 dikt'', anthology *2002 ''Tolv meditasjoner'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2003 ''Diktet minner om verden'' ( Kommet Forlag, Oslo) Extended version published by Gyldendal 2004 *2004 ''Drømmemakeren sa'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2011 ''Store hvite bok å se'' (Gyldendal, Oslo)

Prose

*1967 ''fra rom til rom : SAD & CRAZY'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1976 ''BusteR BrenneR'' (Gyldendal, Oslo)

Essays

*1976 ''Entusiastiske essays : klippbok 1960–75'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1980 ''Det norske syndromet'' *1984 ''Her. Her i denne verden : essays og samtaler'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1990 ''Poetisk praksis 1975–1990'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1994 ''Under Hauges ord'' *1995 ''Etterblikk. Ernst Orvil, poet'' *1998 ''Storytellers'' *1999 ''Tydelig, 33 : essays 1965–1998'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2000 ''Mørkets sangerske. En bok om Gunvor Hofmo'' *2005 ''God jul med Gertrude Stein og andre essays''

Drama

*''Prins Adrians reise : et hørespill for åtte stemmer'', for

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Radioteatret (produced 1984, replay 1984) *''Noe om noe : et fore-drag for radio'', for NRK Radioteatret (produsert 1986, replay 1986)

Discography

*1969 ''Briskeby blues'' (with

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)(

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, Oslo) *1971 ''Hav'' (with

) *1973 ''Trikkeskinner'' (single with

) *1977 ''Ingentings bjeller'' *1981 ''Stein. Regn'' (with

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) *1986 ''Den dagen Lady døde / Jan Erik Vold leser dikt av Frank O'Hara'' (

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, Oslo) *1988 ''Blåmann! Blåmann!'' (with Chet Baker) (

, Oslo) *1990 ''Sannheten om trikken er at den brenner'' (

, Oslo) *1992 ''Pytt Pytt Blues'' (

, Oslo) *1994 ''Obstfelder live på Rebecka West'' (

, Oslo) *1996 ''Her er huset som Per bygde'' (

, Oslo) *1998 ''Storytellers'' (

, Oslo) *2005 ''Vold synger svadaåret inn'' (

, Oslo) *2008 ''Drømmemakeren sa'' (with

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) (

, Oslo) *2009 ''Jan Erik Vold: Vokal – The Complete Recordings 1966–1977'' (Plastic Strip/Musikkoperatørene) *2010 ''Telemark Blue'' (with Chet Baker) (

, Oslo) *2012 ''Blackbird Bye Bye'' (with

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) (

, Oslo)

Reinvented poems

*1964

Peter Bichsel Peter Bichsel (born 24 March 1935) is a popular Swiss writer and journalist representing modern German literature. He was a member of the Gruppe Olten. Bichsel was born 1935 in Lucerne, Switzerland, the son of manual labourers. Shortly after ...

: ''Egentlig ville fru Blum bli kjent med melkemannen'' (

Pax Forlag Pax Forlag is a Norwegian publishing house, established in 1964. The first manager was Tor Bjerkmann, who chaired the company from 1964 to 1972. Starting with Bjerkmann's new translation of George Orwell's ''Animal Farm'', Pax published 150 qu ...

, Oslo) *1969

William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...

: ''LOVE'' *1971

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

: ''Alle dem som faller'' (Originaltittel: ''All that fall'', radio play, send the in

Radioteatret 11 November 1971) *1972

Robert Creeley Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Char ...

''Alt er vann/om du ser lenge nok'' : 74 poems from ''For love'' (Pax Forlag, Oslo) *1972

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: ''

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'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1977

: ''Damer i regn : 70 sanger på norsk'' (Den norske bokklubben, Stabekk) *1983

Frank O'Hara Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure i ...

: ''Solen ute på Fire Island & andre dikt'' *1987

og fleire: ''Becketts ring : samlede dikt av Samuel Beckett; spredte dikt av Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Éluard'' (

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, Oslo) *1996

Tomas Tranströmer Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's ...

''Samlede dikt'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1998 ''Storytellers : en begrunnet antologi'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2004 Richard Brautigan: ''Å føre krig mot den gjengse maratonprosa'' (Kolon, Oslo) *2005

: ''Vente på Godot'' *2009

Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance compa ...

: ''Keiseren av iskrem'' (Gyldendal, Oslo)

Nonfiction, author biographies

*1962 ''

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: 1902 – 1962'', coauthors (''Det norske Studentersamfund'',

) *1969 Edgar Miguel Molina : 1969 Author (TPA Methodology, Bogotá, Colombia). *1964 ''

Tarjei Vesaas Tarjei Vesaas (20 August 1897 – 15 March 1970) was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Vesaas is widely considered to be one of Norway's greatest writers of the twentieth century and perhaps its most important since World War II. Biography Vesaas ...

: et skrift lagt fram på Kulturutvalgets Tarjei Vesaas-aften i Universitetets aula 14. mars 1964'', editor and co-author (''Det norske Studentersamfund'',

) *1975 ''Jazz i Norge'', Editor together with Olav Angell and

Einar Økland Einar Økland (born 17 January 1940) is a Norwegian poet, playwright, essayist and children's writer. He was born in Sveio, and educated psychologist. He made his literary debut in 1963, with the poetry collection ''Ein gul dag''. He was awarded ...

(

, Oslo) *1978 ''Ernst Orvil : en bok til 80-årsdagen 12.april 1978'', redigert saman men Johan Fredrik Grøgaard og

Kjell Heggelund Kjell Heggelund (16 December 1932 – 8 February 2017) was a Norwegian literary researcher, lecturer, editor, manager, poet, translator and literary critic. Personal life Heggelund was born in Hamar. His parents were Kristian Heggelund and Ka ...

(

, Oslo) *1980 ''Det norske syndromet : et kritisk syn på norsk lyrikk'' (

Universitetsforlaget Universitetsforlaget AS (English: "The University Press"), also known in English as Scandinavian University Press, is a Norwegian academic publishing company, which publishes non-fiction literature and journals mainly oriented to Scandinavia. U ...

, Oslo) *1986 ''Per Kleiva'', redigert saman med Ulf Renberg and Harald Flor ( Labyrinth Press, Oslo) *1994 ''Under Hauges ord : essays, samtaler, brev, dikt, fotos'' (Samlaget, Oslo) �
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*2000 ''Mørkets sangerske : a book about

Gunvor Hofmo Gunvor Hofmo (30 June 1921 – 17 October 1995) was a Norwegian writer, often considered one of Norway's most influential modernist poets. Background Gunvor Hofmo was born in Oslo, Norway. Her parents were Erling Hofmo (1893–1959) and Bertha B ...

'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2001 ''Uten manus : dokumentarisk 1980–2000'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2007 ''

Ruth Maier Ruth Maier (10 November 1920 in Vienna, Austria – 1 December 1942 in Auschwitz, Poland) was an Austrian woman whose diaries describing her experiences of the Holocaust in Austria and Norway were published in 2007; reviews described her as "Nor ...

s dagbok – en jødisk flyktning i Norge'', ed. (Gyldendal, Oslo)

Anthologies and other writings

*1974 ''Poesi pluss'' (Den norske bokklubben, Stabekk) *1974 ''USA 74'' *1975

Olav H. Hauge Olav Håkonson Hauge (18 August 1908 – 23 May 1994) was a Norwegian horticulturist, translator and poet. Biography Hauge was born at the village of Ulvik in Hordaland, Norway. His parents Håkon Hauge (1877-1954) and Katrina Hakestad (1873-19 ...

: ''Syn oss åkeren din'' (Den norske bokklubben, Stabekk) *1978

Erling Christie Erling Christie (19 May 1928 — 3 September 1996) was a Norwegian author. Christie was among the pioneers of modernism in Norway both as a poet and a critic. Christie published five poetry collections in his life, and these were collected i ...

: ''og undring rører vår uro'' (Den norske bokklubben, Stabekk) *1983 Sigurd Bodvar: ''Dikt i utvalg : 1933–1983'' ( Tiden, Oslo) *1985 ''Moderne norsk lyrikk : frie vers 1890–1980 : en antologi'', redigert saman med Kjell Erik Heggelund ( Cappelen, Oslo) �
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*1988 Sverre Udnæs: ''Dramatikk 1964–1982'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1988 Cornelis Vreeswijk: ''Sånger'' (Bromberg, Stockholm) *1990

Ernst Orvil Ernst Orvil (née Ernst Richard Nilsen; 12 April 1898 – 16 June 1985) was a Norwegian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright. Biography Ernst Richard Orvil was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. His parents Johan Nilsen (Rev ...

: ''Sommer : samlede dikt 1940–1955'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1991

: ''Vandringer : samlede dikt 1955–1970'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1992

: ''Brekasjer : samlede dikt 1970–1985'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1993 Sigurd Bodvar: ''Leve, det går an : tre prosa-bøker'' (Aschehoug, Oslo) *1996

: ''Samlede noveller'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1997

: ''Etterlatte dikt'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1997

: ''Samlede skuespill'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1998

: ''Utvalgte dikt'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1999

: ''Jeg glemmer ingen'' *2000 Cornelis Vreeswijk: ''Skrifter'' (Ordfronts förlag, Stockholm) *2000 Gunnar Larsen: ''En avismanns samlede poesi'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2001

Sigbjørn Obstfelder Sigbjørn Obstfelder (21 November 1866 – 29 July 1900) was a 19th-century Norwegian writer and poet. Background Obstfelder was born in Stavanger, Norway on November 21, 1866. He was the eighth child in a family of sixteen children, being o ...

: ''Samlede dikt'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2003 ''P x 3 : Prøysen, Stevens, Tranströmer'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2004

Kate Næss Kate Næss (30 July 1938 – 15 July 1987) was a Norwegian poet and translator. She was born in Oslo, and was married to theatre director Janken Varden. She made her literary debut in 1962 with the poetry collection ''Billedskrift''. Later co ...

: ''sekstitallets hemmelige dronning : samlede dikt og gjendiktninger'' (Den norske lyrikklubben, Stabekk) *2004 Richard Brautigan: ''Å føre krig mot den gjengse maratonprosa'' (

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* Abba Kolon, a figure in Talmudic mythology * Ali Kolon, 15th-century Songhai king * Colon (disambiguation) * Kollon * Kolong (disambig ...

, Oslo) *2004

: ''Damer i regn'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2010 ''Fem stemmer : essays, antologi, lydspor'' (Om: Uppdal, Hofmo, Ulven, Heggelund, Nyquist) (Aschehoug, Oslo)

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