Helge Torvund (born 20 August 1951) is a Norwegian psychologist, poet, essayist, literary critic and children's writer. He was born in
Hå
Hå is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is the southernmost municipality in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Jæren. The administrative centre of the municipality is the v ...
municipality and is brother of sculptor
Gunnar Torvund.
He made his literary debut in 1977 with ''Hendene i byen''.
In 1989 he was awarded the
Nynorsk Literature Prize for the poetry collection ''Den monotone triumf''. He received the
Herman Wildenvey Poetry Award in 2016.
From 2015 he has been writing monthly in the newspaper ''
Klassekampen
(Lit. translation: ''"The Class Struggle"'') is a Norwegian daily newspaper in print and online. Its tagline is "The daily newspaper of the Left". The paper's net circulation was 33,265 in 2022, and it has around 111,000 daily readers on paper ...
''. One of these articles has been translated and published by
York Art Gallery
York Art Gallery is a public art gallery in York, England, with a collection of paintings from 14th-century to contemporary, prints, watercolours, drawings, and ceramics. It closed for major redevelopment in 2013, reopening in summer of 2015. T ...
as "Carnal Light".
He was awarded the
Dobloug Prize The Dobloug Prize (, ) is a literature prize awarded for Swedish and Norwegian fiction. The prize is named after Norwegian businessman and philanthropist Birger Dobloug (1881–1944) pursuant to his bequest. The prize sum is 4 * 150,000 Swedish crow ...
in 2018.
[
His children's book Vivaldi (NYRB, 2019) was included in Flavorwire's 20 Most Beautiful Children's Books of All Time.
In 2022 The Song Cave published a book length poem called "Seriosuly well".]
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1951 births
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1951 births
Living people
People from Hå
20th-century Norwegian poets
Norwegian male poets
Norwegian children's writers
Norwegian male essayists
20th-century Norwegian essayists
20th-century Norwegian male writers
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