| Finn Carling | |
| Birth Date: | 1 October 1925 |
| Birth Place: | Oslo, Norway |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Occupation: | Novelist, playwright, poet and essayist |
| Awards: | Riksmål Society Literature Prize (1970) Gyldendal's Endowment (1976) Dobloug Prize (1986) Aschehoug Prize (1987) Arts Council Norway Honorary Award (1999) |
Finn Carling (1 October 1925 - 12 March 2004) was a Norwegian novelist, playwright, poet and essayist.
He was born in Oslo, Norway. He took artium in 1945 and studied psychology at the University of Oslo from 1945-49. He followed with a course of study of sociology, history and literature at Howard University in Washington, D.C. during 1957-58.[1]
He made his literary debut in 1949 with Broen (two short stories and a one-act play). He had authorship of several genres, and became a key figure in Norwegian post-war literature. Carling had innate cerebral palsy. He described his childhood and adolescence with this disability in the autobiographical novel Kilden og muren (1958).[2] [3]
He died during 2004 and was buried at Voksen kirkegård in Oslo.[4]