Øyvind Berg (born 14 January 1959 is a Norwegian

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. Berg was born in

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. He studied to the intermediate levelThe Intermediate status requires that the student have taken 90 credits in a particular subject. This corresponds to roughly 1.5 years of study for that subject. in

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at the

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and the

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway ( Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway a ...

. He was a member of the

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from 1987 to 1988 and 1993 to 1996. He was selected to serve on the

Arts Council Norway The Arts Council Norway (, often shortened to ''Kulturrådet'') is the official arts council for Norway. Based in Oslo, it is a Norwegian state institution created in as a result of a parliamentary decision in 1964. Arts Council Norway's admini ...

's appeal committee for recognition of new Norwegian literature. In 1997, he was artistic director for

Norwegian Festival of Literature The Norwegian Festival of Literature (in Norwegian Sigrid Undset-dagene) is the biggest non commercial literary festival in the Nordic countries taking place in May/June in Lillehammer every year since 1995. The festival includes all the Nordic cou ...

. Berg's poetry has been translated into German, English and Danish.

Bibliography

*''Retninger'' – poetry (1982) *''Barn er et hardt språk'' – poetry (1984) *''Vitenskap for barn'' – poetry (1985) *''Et foranskutt lyn'' – poetry (1986) *''Totschweigetaktiken'' – poetry (1988) *''Kjøter: en sosiodisé'' – play (1989) *''Lærestykker'' – play (1990) *''Kunngjøring'' – poetry (1992) *''Poe si tid'' – poetry (1993) *''Forskjellig'' – poetry (1995) *''Kjærlighetc.'' – poetry (1997) *''Nede fortelling'' – poetry (2000) *''Chutzpah i måneskinn'' – poetry, prose (2004)

Awards

* Oktoberprisen 1992 *

Brage Prize The Brage Prize (Norwegian: ''Brageprisen'') is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation (''Den norske bokprisen''). The prize recognizes recently published Norwegian literature. The Brage Pr ...

1995, for ''Forskjellig'' * Norsk teaterlederforums oversetterpris 1996 *

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, ba ...

1999 *

Halldis Moren Vesaas-prisen The Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize ()Halldis Moren Vesaas (1907—1995) was a Norwegian author, poet and translator. is a Norwegian literary prize which is awarded annually to a Norwegian for lyric or other poetry, which through the quality and magnit ...

2000 * Språklig samlings litteraturpris 2002 * Hold Dampen Oppe-prisen 2003 * Danse- og teatersentrums Scenekunstpris 2003

References and notes

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(in Norwegian)
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