Kåre Holt Explained
Kåre Holt (10 October 1916 – 15 March 1997) was a Norwegian author. He wrote plays, poetry and about forty books.
Biography
Holt was born in Våle Municipality in Vestfold, Norway. His parents were Peder Anton Kristiansen (1870-1958) and Mathilde Sofie Larsen Rønningen (1871-1945). He worked for some time as a journalist at Vestfold Arbeiderblad.[1]
His initial work was published in 1939, a children's book named Tore Kramkar. As his career progressed, Holt wrote many children's books, plays, radio plays, biographies, and historical novels. The trilogy Kongen about King Sverre Sigurdsson[2] is considered his principal work. He is also remembered for his mythologically-based novels about icons of Norwegian history, among others Kappløpet about Roald Amundsen which created a sensation when it was published in 1974.[3]
Holt won The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature 1954, for Mennesker ved en grense. Holt was nominated three times for The Nordic Council's Literature Prize (Nordisk Råds litteraturpris): in 1966 for the novel Kongen - Mannen fra utskjæret, in 1970 for the novel Kongen - Hersker og trell and in 1979 for the novel Sønn av jord og himmel. Holt was made a Knight 1st Class in the Order of St. Olav in 1991. He died during 1997 in Holmestrand Municipality in Vestfold. In 2007, a bust of the author by artist Ada Madssen was unveiled in front of his former house at Reidvintunet, an open-air museum in the village of Hillestad in Holmestrand.[4]
Bibliography
- Tore Kramkar - (1939)
- Tore finner vei - (1940)
- Spillemann og kjøgemester - (1941)
- Udåden - (1945)
- Hurra for han som innstifta da'n - a biography of Henrik Wergeland for young people (1945)
- Demring - (1946)
- Nattgjester - novel (1948)
- Cleng Peerson og Nils med luggen - teen book (1948)
- Det store veiskillet - novel (1949)
- Brødre - novel (1951)
- Hevnen hører meg til - novel (1953)
- Mennesker ved en grense - novel (1954)
- Det stolte nederlag - novel (1956)
- Natt ved sjøen - radioplay (1956)
- Storm under morgenstjerne - novel (1958)
- Rømlingen Oskar og Maria fra Hulesjøen - teen novel (1959)
- Opprørere ved havet - novel (1960)
- Den gamle veien til Kierlighed - stories (1961)
- Perlefiskeren - novel (1963)
- Mannen fra utskjæret - novel (1965) (about King Sverre Sigurdsson)
- Fredløse menn - novel (1967) (about King Sverre Sigurdsson)
- Hersker og trell - novel (1969) (about King Sverre Sigurdsson)
- Kristina av Tunsberg - play (1971)
- Oppstandelsen - novel (1971)
- Ansikter i sagaens halvlys - (1971) (illustrated by Karl Erik Harr)
- Farvel til en kvinne - novel (1972) (about the queen buried at Oseberg)
- Hilsen fra Rafnaberg - collection of articles (1973)
- Folket ved Svansjøen - prose collection (1973)
- Kappløpet - novel (1974) (about Roald Amundsen)
- Sjøhelten - novel (1975) (about Peter Wessel Tordenskiold)
- De lange mil til paradiset - novel (1977)
- Sønn av jord og himmel - novel (1978) (about Hans Egede)
- Skuddet - criminal novel (1979) (about Claus Jæger)
- Gjester fra det ukjente - novel (1980)
- Biter av et bilde - drawings (1981)
- Mørke smil - satire (1981)
- Sannferdig beretning om mitt liv som løgner - autobiography (1982)
- Veien videre. Ny sannferdig beretning om mitt liv som løgner - autobiography (1983)
- Skoggangsmann - (1984) (about Rottenikken)
- Budbringeren fra Tunsberg - teen novel (1985)
- Flyktningen fra Stiklestad - teen novel (1986)
- Vandringen - novel (1986) (about Fridtjof Nansen)
- Det finnes en kvinne i Nevada for hvem jeg ha løyet - collection of articles (1995)
Prizes
- Norwegian Culture and Religious Department prize for young peoples literature for Cleng Peerson og Nils med luggen - 1948
- The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for Mennesker ved en grense - 1954
- Språklig samlings litteraturpris - 1966[5]
- Gyldendal's Endowment - 1967[6]
- Sarpsborgprisen - 1967
- Dobloug Prize - 1970[7]
- Sproingprisen for Kristina av Tunsberg - 1991 [8]
- Norwegian Culture and Religious Department prize for young peoples literature for Kristina av Tunsberg - 1991
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Øystein Rottem . Kåre Holt . April 1, 2018 . Norsk biografisk leksikon.
- Sverre Sigurdsson (old Norse Sverrir Sigurðarson) (c. 1145/1151 - 9 March 1202) was king of Norway from 1184 to 1202.
- Web site: Erik Bjerck Hagen . Kåre Holt . April 1, 2018 . Store norske leksikon.
- Web site: Ada Madssen . April 1, 2018 . Store norske leksikon.
- Web site: Språklig samlings litteraturpris . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071024111217/http://www.barum.folkebibl.no/utiverden/litteraturpris/alle.html . 2007-10-24 . April 1, 2018 . barum.folkebibl.
- Web site: Vidar Iversen . Gyldendalprisen . April 1, 2018 . Store norske leksikon.
- Web site: Vidar Iversen . Doblougprisen . April 1, 2018 . Store norske leksikon.
- Web site: Øyvind Holen . Øyvind Holen . Sproingprisen . April 1, 2018 . Store norske leksikon.
