Kjartan Hatløy (born 16 February 1954) is a Norwegian poet, and winner of 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 ...

2021.

Career

Hatløy made his literary debut in 1996 with the poetry collection ''Solreven'', a collection of short poems reflecting on aspects of nature. Later collections are ''Fjord'' from 2011, and ''Kjøkkendikt'' from 2012. With ''Kjøkkendikt'' he reached a wider public, and the collection was nominated for the

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 ...

. In 2016 he issued ''Den kvite vegen'', and ''Menneskedagar'' came in 2018. He was awarded the literary prize ''Diktartavla'' in 2015, and the

in 2021. In 2017 he was featured in the German documentary film ''Der Sonnenfuchs''.

Personal life

Born on 16 February 1954, Hatløy grew up in

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, and settled in the village of

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. His background includes studies in philosophy at the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen () is a public university, public research university in Bergen, Norway. As of 2021, the university had over 4,000 employees and 19,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 1946 consolidating several sci ...

, education as plumber, and working experience from the shipping industry. Hatløy is the uncle of fellow Norwegian author

Karl Ove Knausgård Karl Ove Knausgård (; born 6 December 1968) is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for a series of six autobiographical novels titled '' My Struggle'' (''Min Kamp''). ''The Wall Street Journal'' has described him as "one of the 21st c ...

, being a brother to his mother. As such, Hatløy is present in several parts of Knausgård's autobiographical novel 'My Struggle'.

References

1954 births Living people People from Hyllestad Norwegian poets Dobloug Prize winners {{Norway-writer-stub