Erling Kittelsen Explained
| Erling Kittelsen |
| Birth Date: | 10 April 1946 |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Occupation: | Poet, novelist, children's writer, playwright and translator |
| Awards: | |
Erling Kittelsen (born 10 April 1946) is a Norwegian poet, novelist, children's writer, playwright and translator. He made his literary debut in 1970 with the poetry collection Ville fugler.[1] [2] Kittelsen was part of the poetic action group "Stuntpoetene" during the 1980s, along with Jón Sveinbjørn Jónsson, Triztán Vindtorn, Arne Ruste, Thorvald Steen, Karin Moe, Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen and others.[3]
He was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment in 1982, the Aschehoug Prize in 1990, and the Dobloug Prize in 2002.
Bibliography
- Wild birds (poems) 1970
- The tree arches (fable) 1973
- Between the rivers (7 stories) 1976
- Swing village (novel) 1977
- Long live the hull, rise from the junk (children book) 1979
- House in lockdown (biography) 1979
- Day and night at Le (poems) 1981
- Tiu (poetry cycle) 1982
- The wayward story about sollos, sealcats and a pocket of love in the sea (fable) 1983
- In this house (together with Paal-Helge Haugen, poems) 1984
- To tease a Guru, the story of a nameless seal) 1985
- Raka, the storyteller (fable) 1987
- Abiriel´s lion (play) 1988
- She (dialog with an Edda-poem, poetry cycle) 1989
- The spacedrifter (play) 1991
- Pit (fable) 1991
- Fable Vega (fable) 1992
- The house of the seven dolls (play) 1993
- Heaven, Lake (translation of He Dong together with the poet) 1994
- Oceans of moments (translation of Jamshed Masroor together with the poet) 1994
- Fleeing clouds (translating of Muniam Alfaker together with the poet) 1994
- In (48 poems) 1995
- Dainas (translation of Latvian folk-poems) 2006
- Otrap (A critical exposition or wondrous intervals during 46 positions of love, novel) 1998
- On the heaven (play) 2000
- The book of vision (translation of Muniam Alfaker together with Walid al-Kubaisi) 2001
- Vindkald (dialog with an Edda-poem) 2001
- The sail of Brage (dialog with a scaldic poem) 2003
- From vinehouse to mosque (translation together with Finn Thiesen, 5 Persien poets) 2003
- The rooster has crowed, the hero has done everything he had to do (poems, translated from Korean together with Vladimir Thikonov) 2004
- For Inanna (Enheduanna´s poem translated from Sumerian together with Jens Braarvig)
- The receiver (poems) 2005
- Diamond mountains (translation of poems of the dying together with Vladimir Thikonov) 2006
- All that remains (biography) 2007
- When the world whispers (translations of san-stories together with Roger Avenstrup) 2008
- Don´t tell it (play) 2009
- The poem runs like a town (poetry cycle) 2010
- Selected poems (bilingual, Norwegian/English) 2012
- I, Jako (novel) 2013
- The sleeper (play) 2014
- Book: Various authors . Jarquín . Carlos Javier . Carlos Javier Jarquín . Canto planetario: hermandad en la Tierra . 2023 . HC Editores . Costa Rica . 979-8850092115 .
Notes and References
- Encyclopedia: Erling Kittelsen . Store norske leksikon. Henriksen, Petter . Kunnskapsforlaget . Oslo. no. 29 June 2010.
- Encyclopedia: Erling Kittelsen . Norsk biografisk leksikon. Øystein . Rottem . Øystein Rottem . Helle, Knut. Kunnskapsforlaget. Oslo . no . 29 June 2010.
- Encyclopedia: Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen . Øystein . Rottem . Øystein Rottem . . Bolstad . Erik . Norsk nettleksikon . Oslo . no . 14 May 2019.
