Jan Erik Vold (born 18 October 1939) is a Norwegian lyric poet, reciter, translator and author.Store Norske Leksikon: Jan Erik Vold
/ref> He was a member of the so-called "''Profil'' generation", the circle attached to the literary magazine '' Profil''. Throughout his career, he has contributed to modernist Norwegian poetry. Jan Erik Vold is currently living in

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. He was born in

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, the son of journalist Ragnar Vold.

Career

He has won numerous awards, including the 1965 Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris for his literary début, ''Mellom speil og speil'';

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in 1968; the Aschehoug Prize in 1981; the

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for Poetry in 1993 and Honorary Award in 1997; the Gyldendal Prize in 2000; the Anvil Award in 2004; and he was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1979 and 1999. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the

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in 2000.

Works

Poetry collections

*1965 ''mellom speil og speil'' ( Gyldendal, Oslo) *1966 ''HEKT'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1966 "Istapptid" *1966 ''blikket'' (Kommet Forlag, Oslo) *1967 ''Svingstang'' (eget opptrykk i 700 eksemplarer) *1968 ''Mor Godhjertas glade versjon. Ja'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1969 ''Bo på Briskeby blues'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1969 ''kykelipi'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1970 ''Spor, snø'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1970 ''Bok 8: LIV'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1978 ''S'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1979 ''sirkel sirkel: boken om prins Adrians reise'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1987 ''Sorgen. Sangen. Veien'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1988 ''En som het Abel Ek'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1989 ''Elg'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1993 ''IKKE : skillingstrykk fra nittitallet'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1993 ''En sirkel is'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1995 ''Kalenderdikt'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1997 ''Ikke'' (illustrated by Steffen Kverneland) ( Samlaget, Oslo) *2000 ''I vektens tegn : 777 dikt'', anthology *2002 ''Tolv meditasjoner'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2003 ''Diktet minner om verden'' ( Kommet Forlag, Oslo) Extended version published by Gyldendal 2004 *2004 ''Drømmemakeren sa'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2011 ''Store hvite bok å se'' (Gyldendal, Oslo)

Prose

*1967 ''fra rom til rom : SAD & CRAZY'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1976 ''BusteR BrenneR'' (Gyldendal, Oslo)

Essays

*1976 ''Entusiastiske essays : klippbok 1960–75'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1980 ''Det norske syndromet'' *1984 ''Her. Her i denne verden : essays og samtaler'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1990 ''Poetisk praksis 1975–1990'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1994 ''Under Hauges ord'' *1995 ''Etterblikk. Ernst Orvil, poet'' *1998 ''Storytellers'' *1999 ''Tydelig, 33 : essays 1965–1998'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2000 ''Mørkets sangerske. En bok om Gunvor Hofmo'' *2005 ''God jul med Gertrude Stein og andre essays''

Drama

*''Prins Adrians reise : et hørespill for åtte stemmer'', for NRK Radioteatret (produced 1984, replay 1984) *''Noe om noe : et fore-drag for radio'', for NRK Radioteatret (produsert 1986, replay 1986)

Discography

*1969 ''Briskeby blues'' (with

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)( PolyGram Records, Oslo) *1971 ''Hav'' (with

) *1973 ''Trikkeskinner'' (single with

) *1977 ''Ingentings bjeller'' *1981 ''Stein. Regn'' (with Kåre Virud) *1986 ''Den dagen Lady døde / Jan Erik Vold leser dikt av Frank O'Hara'' (

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, Oslo) *1988 ''Blåmann! Blåmann!'' (with

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) (

, Oslo) *1990 ''Sannheten om trikken er at den brenner'' (

, Oslo) *1992 ''Pytt Pytt Blues'' (

, Oslo) *1994 ''Obstfelder live på Rebecka West'' (

, Oslo) *1996 ''Her er huset som Per bygde'' (

, Oslo) *1998 ''Storytellers'' (

, Oslo) *2005 ''Vold synger svadaåret inn'' (

, Oslo) *2008 ''Drømmemakeren sa'' (with Egil Kapstad) (

, Oslo) *2009 ''Jan Erik Vold: Vokal – The Complete Recordings 1966–1977'' (Plastic Strip/Musikkoperatørene) *2010 ''Telemark Blue'' (with

) (

, Oslo) *2012 ''Blackbird Bye Bye'' (with Bill Frisell og Arild Andersen) (

, Oslo)

Reinvented poems

*1964 Peter Bichsel : ''Egentlig ville fru Blum bli kjent med melkemannen'' ( Pax Forlag, Oslo) *1969 William Carlos Williams: ''LOVE'' *1971

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: ''Alle dem som faller'' (Originaltittel: ''All that fall'', radio play, send the in NRK Radioteatret 11 November 1971) *1972 Robert Creeley ''Alt er vann/om du ser lenge nok'' : 74 poems from ''For love'' (Pax Forlag, Oslo) *1972

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: ''

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'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1977

: ''Damer i regn : 70 sanger på norsk'' (Den norske bokklubben, Stabekk) *1983

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: ''Solen ute på Fire Island & andre dikt'' *1987

og fleire: ''Becketts ring : samlede dikt av Samuel Beckett; spredte dikt av Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Éluard'' ( Forlaget Oktober, Oslo) *1996

Tomas Tranströmer Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long winters in Sweden, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer' ...

''Samlede dikt'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1998 ''Storytellers : en begrunnet antologi'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2004 Richard Brautigan: ''Å føre krig mot den gjengse maratonprosa'' (Kolon, Oslo) *2005

: ''Vente på Godot'' *2009 Wallace Stevens: ''Keiseren av iskrem'' (Gyldendal, Oslo)

Nonfiction, author biographies

*1962 '' Johan Borgen : 1902 – 1962'', coauthors (''Det norske Studentersamfund'',

) *1969 Edgar Miguel Molina : 1969 Author (TPA Methodology, Bogotá, Colombia). *1964 '' Tarjei Vesaas : et skrift lagt fram på Kulturutvalgets Tarjei Vesaas-aften i Universitetets aula 14. mars 1964'', editor and co-author (''Det norske Studentersamfund'',

) *1975 ''Jazz i Norge'', Editor together with Olav Angell and Einar Økland ( Gyldendal, Oslo) *1978 ''Ernst Orvil : en bok til 80-årsdagen 12.april 1978'', redigert saman men Johan Fredrik Grøgaard og Kjell Heggelund ( Gyldendal, Oslo) *1980 ''Det norske syndromet : et kritisk syn på norsk lyrikk'' (

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, Oslo) *1986 ''Per Kleiva'', redigert saman med Ulf Renberg and Harald Flor ( Labyrinth Press, Oslo) *1994 ''Under Hauges ord : essays, samtaler, brev, dikt, fotos'' (Samlaget, Oslo) �
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*2000 ''Mørkets sangerske : a book about Gunvor Hofmo'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2001 ''Uten manus : dokumentarisk 1980–2000'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2007 '' Ruth Maiers dagbok – en jødisk flyktning i Norge'', ed. (Gyldendal, Oslo)

Anthologies and other writings

*1974 ''Poesi pluss'' (Den norske bokklubben, Stabekk) *1974 ''USA 74'' *1975 Olav H. Hauge: ''Syn oss åkeren din'' (Den norske bokklubben, Stabekk) *1978 Erling Christie: ''og undring rører vår uro'' (Den norske bokklubben, Stabekk) *1983 Sigurd Bodvar: ''Dikt i utvalg : 1933–1983'' ( Tiden, Oslo) *1985 ''Moderne norsk lyrikk : frie vers 1890–1980 : en antologi'', redigert saman med Kjell Erik Heggelund ( Cappelen, Oslo) �
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*1988 Sverre Udnæs: ''Dramatikk 1964–1982'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1988 Cornelis Vreeswijk: ''Sånger'' (Bromberg, Stockholm) *1990

Ernst Orvil Ernst Orvil (née Ernst Richard Nilsen; 12 April 1898 – 16 June 1985) was a Norwegian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright. Biography Ernst Richard Orvil was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. His parents Johan Nilsen (R ...

: ''Sommer : samlede dikt 1940–1955'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1991

: ''Vandringer : samlede dikt 1955–1970'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1992

: ''Brekasjer : samlede dikt 1970–1985'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1993 Sigurd Bodvar: ''Leve, det går an : tre prosa-bøker'' (Aschehoug, Oslo) *1996

: ''Samlede noveller'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1997 Gunvor Hofmo: ''Etterlatte dikt'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1997

: ''Samlede skuespill'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1998

: ''Utvalgte dikt'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *1999 Gunvor Hofmo: ''Jeg glemmer ingen'' *2000 Cornelis Vreeswijk: ''Skrifter'' (Ordfronts förlag, Stockholm) *2000 Gunnar Larsen: ''En avismanns samlede poesi'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2001 Sigbjørn Obstfelder: ''Samlede dikt'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2003 ''P x 3 : Prøysen, Stevens, Tranströmer'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2004 Kate Næss: ''sekstitallets hemmelige dronning : samlede dikt og gjendiktninger'' (Den norske lyrikklubben, Stabekk) *2004 Richard Brautigan: ''Å føre krig mot den gjengse maratonprosa'' ( Kolon Forlag, Oslo) *2004

: ''Damer i regn'' (Gyldendal, Oslo) *2010 ''Fem stemmer : essays, antologi, lydspor'' (Om: Uppdal, Hofmo, Ulven, Heggelund, Nyquist) (Aschehoug, Oslo)

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