Gunnar Wærness (born 22 November 1971) is a Norwegian poet. He made his literary début in 1999 with the poetry collection ''Kongesplint'', for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. Among his other poetry collections are ''Takk'' from 2002 and ''Hverandres'' from 2006. He was awarded the

Dobloug Prize The Dobloug Prize (, ) 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. The prize sum is 4 * 150,000 Swedish crow ...

in 2023.

Selected works

Source: * (poetry collection) * (poetry collection) * (poetry collection) * (poetry collection) * (poetry anthology, jointly with co-editor Pedro Carmona-Alvarez) *Tungen og tåren. 2013. (poetry collection) * (poetry collection) *''Å skrive er å be om for mye.'' 2020. *''Ta på Jesus/Touch Jesus''. 2021. *''Friends with Everyone'' (''Venn med alle)'' translated by

Gabriel Gudding Gabriel Gudding is an American poet, essayist, and translator. Life Gudding attended The Evergreen State College, an experimental school in Olympia, Washington, Purdue University and Cornell University. He is Professor of English in the English ...

, 2024.

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