Liv Køltzow (born 14 January 1945) is a Norwegian novelist, playwright, biographer and essayist. She has received the

Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment is an annually awarded literary prize from the publishing house Aschehoug. The prize is a recognition of superior literary work. The publisher's editorial management makes the award based on their collective judgement ...

, the

Gyldendal's Endowment The Gyldendal Prize, formerly Gyldendal's Endowment, is a Norwegian literary prize awarded by the Norway, Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. Gyldendal's Endowment was awarded from 1934 to 1995. It was superseded by the Gyldendal Prize in ...

, the

Amalie Skram Prize The Amalie Skram Prize (Norwegian: ) is a Norwegian literature prize established by the Amalie Skram society in Bergen in 1994. The prize is given to a female writer of fiction in the spirit of author and women's rights pioneer Amalie Skram, and ...

, 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 ...

(twice), 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, ba ...

, and the

Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (''Den norske Kritikerprisen for litteratur'' or ''Kritikerprisen'') is awarded by the Norwegian Literature Critics' Association (''Norsk Litteraturkritikerlag'') and has been awarded every year since 1950 ...

Personal life

Køltzow was born in

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

to Oscar Køltzow and Else Mathisen. She was married to writer Espen Haavardsholm from 1966 to 1973, and to Kjell Heggelund from 1985.

Career

Køltzow published texts in the modernist literary magazine '' Profil''. She was regarded as one of the central Norwegian feminist writers during the 1970s, and the short novel ''Hvem bestemmer over Bjørg og Unni?'' (1972) has been called Norway's first pamphlet of the militant and socialist feminism in the 1970s. Her novel ''Historien om Eli'' from 1975 deals with psychological aspects of individuals. The novel was also translated into Swedish and Danish language. Further books are the novel ''Løp, mann'' from 1980, two stories in the collection ''April/November'' (1983), and the novel ''Hvem har ditt ansikt?'' from 1988. She received

in 1988, and was the first winner of the

Amalie Skram Amalie Skram (22 August 1846 – 15 March 1905) was a Norwegian author and feminist who gave voice to a woman's point of view with her naturalist writing. In Norway, she is frequently considered the most important female writer of the Modern B ...

Prize, in 1994. The novel ''Hvem har ditt ansikt'' 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 1989, but did not win the prize. She was awarded the

in 1997 for the novel ''Verden forsvinner''. In 2002 she published the novel ''Det avbrutte bildet'', and in 2004 the essay collection ''Essays 1975–2004''. She has also written two biographical volumes on

, published in 1992 and 1996. She was awarded the Gyldendal Prize in 2015. Køltzow received the

in 2018, for the novel ''Melding til alle reisende''. She was awarded the

for non-fiction in 2021 for , along with and .

Selected bibliography

* ''Øyet i treet'' - (1970) * ''Hvem bestemmer over Bjørg og Unni?'' -(1972) * ''Historien om Eli'' - (1975) * ''Løp, mann'' - (1980) * ''April/November'' - (1983) * ''Hvem har ditt ansikt'' - (1988) * ''Den unge Amalie Skram'' - biography (1992) * ''Verden forsvinner'' - (1997) * ''Det avbrutte bildet'' - (2002) * 'Melding til alle reisende'' - (2018)

Awards

1975 *

1988 *

1994 *

1997 *''Gyldendal Prize'' 2015 *

2018 *

2021 *

(2021)

References

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