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Edvard Hoem

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Edvard Hoem
Hoem at the 2006 Nordic Council Literature Prize
Born (1949-03-10) 10 March 1949 (age 75)
Fræna, Norway
OccupationAuthor, novelist, essayist
NationalityNorwegian
GenreFiction, plays, essays

Edvard Hoem (born 10 March 1949) is a Norwegian novelist, dramatist, lyricist, psalmist and government scholar. He made his literary debut in 1969, with the poetry collection Som grønne musikantar. He was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1974 for the novel Kjærleikens ferjereiser. He was awarded the Melsom Prize in 2006,[1] and the Peter Dass Prize in 2007 for the novel Mors og fars historie. He received the Ibsen Prize in 2008 for the play Mikal Hetles siste ord.

Several of his books (Kjærleikens ferjereiser (1974), Prøvetid (1984), Ave Eva (1987), Mors og fars historie (2005)) have been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize, but did not win this award.[1]

Hoem was the director of the theater, Teatret Vårt (in Molde) 1997–1999. He has translated at least eleven of Shakespeare's plays into Norwegian.

Bibliography

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  • Som grønne musikantar – Poems (1969)
  • Landet av honning og aske – Poems (1970)
  • Anna Lena – Novel (1971)
  • Kvinnene langs fjorden – Play (1973)
  • Kjærleikens ferjereiser – Novel (1974)
  • Tusen fjordar, tusen fjell og Musikken gjennom Gleng – Play (1977)
  • Gi meg de brennende hjerter 1. Melding frå Petrograd – Novel (1978)
  • Der storbåra bryt – Play (1979)
  • Fjerne Berlin. Gi meg de brennande hjerter 2 – Novel (1980)
  • God natt Europa – Play (1982)
  • Du er blitt glad i dette landet – Poems (1982)
  • Lenins madame – Play (1983)
  • Prøvetid – Novel (1984)
  • Heimlandet Barndom – Novel (1985)
  • Ave Eva – Novel (1987)
  • Landkjenning Romsdal (1987)
  • Sankt Olavs skrin (1989)
  • Til ungdommen, Nordahl Griegs liv (1989)
  • I Tom Bergmanns tid – Novel (1991)
  • Engelen din, Robinson – Novel (1993)
  • Olav Engelbrektsson – Opera (1993) (music: Henning Sommerro)
  • I kampens hete – Essay (1994)
  • Bibelhistorier – (1994)
  • Meisteren og Mirjam – Play (1995)
  • Tid for klage, tid for dans – Novel (1996)
  • Frøken Dreyers musikkskole – Novel (2000).
  • Audun Hestakorn – Play (2002)
  • Eystein av Nidaros – Opera (2003) (music: Henning Sommerro)
  • Roerne i Christiania – Documentary novel (2003)
  • Kristuskonfigurasjonar – (2003)
  • Den fattige Gud – Psalms and ballads (2003)
  • Kom fram, fyrste!Historic novel (2004)
  • Mors og fars historie – novel (2005)
  • Faderen. Peder Bjørnson forsvarer seg (The Father. Peder Bjørnson Defends Himself.) – biography on Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's father (2007)
  • Villskapens år (The Wild Years. The Life of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832–1875) – biography on Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (2009)
  • Vennskap i storm – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1875-1892 (2010)
  • Syng mig hjæm – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1890-1899 (2011)
  • Slåttekar i himmelen – Novel (2014)[2]
  • Bror din på prærien ["your brother on the prairie"]
  • Land ingen har sett ["countries no one has seen"][3]
  • Felemakaren ["the fiddle maker"] (2020)[4]

Translations

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Edvard Hoem's most famous retranslations (Year of translation in brackets).

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Edvard Hoem tildelt Melsomprisen 2006" (in Norwegian). 2006. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
  2. ^ Nydal, Ane (14 November 2014). "Historiens verktøykasse". Morgenbladet.
  3. ^ Edvard Hoem back on the prairie
  4. ^ ""Jeg kan knapt få fullrost denne romanen"". 20 November 2020.
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