Aagot Vinterbo-Hohr (born 2 December 1936) is a Norwegian Sami physician and writer.
Biography
Born in
Måsøy Municipality
Måsøy (; ) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Havøysund. Other villages include Bakfjord, Gunnarnes, Ingøy, Måsøy, Slåtten, and Snefjord. The municipality i ...
in
Finnmark
Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...
county on 2 December 1936, Vinterbo-Hohr made her literary début in 1987 with the text collection ''Palimpsest'',
[ for which she was awarded the ]Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris
Tarjei Vesaas's debutantpris is a prize awarded annually for the best first literary work in Norwegian language, Norwegian. It is awarded by the Norwegian Authors' Union, and the organisation's 9-member Literary Caucus constitutes the jury for t ...
. In an essay on indigenous peoples of Northern Europe, Britt Rajala and Kirsten Thisted described ''Palimpsest'' as a book being both intellectual and reflective, “at once international and yet clearly Sami”.[
As literary researcher in her late seventies, in 2013 Vinterbo-Hohr delivered her dr. thesis ''...ein Herz, das zu genesen fürchtet. ]Goethe
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...
s Wahlverwandtschaften in 21. Jahrhundert gelesen''.[
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References
1936 births
20th-century Norwegian poets
Living people
Norwegian women poets
20th-century Norwegian women writers
People from Måsøy
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