Tone Hødnebø (born 5 November 1962) is a Norwegian poet, translator and magazine editor.

Literary career

Hødnebø made her literary début in 1989 with ''Larm''. She was a co-editor of the magazine ''

Vagant ''Vagant'' is a Norway-based, pan-Scandinavian literary magazine, established in 1988. Vagant.no publishes web-articles on a weekly basis, while the paper edition is released 4 times a year. ''Vagant'' is a member of the European cultural journal ...

'' from 1990 to 1997. Literary historian

Øystein Rottem Øystein Rottem (1 February 1946 – 5 December 2004) was a Norwegian philologist, literary historian and literary critic. Personal life Rottem was born on the island of Hemnskjela in what was then Heim Municipality. His parents were Sverre ...

compared her poetic style in her next collection, ''Mørkt kvadrat'' from 1994, with poets such as Rolf Jacobsen and

Sigbjørn Obstfelder Sigbjørn Obstfelder (21 November 1866 – 29 July 1900) was a 19th-century Norwegian writer and poet. Background Obstfelder was born in Stavanger, Norway on November 21, 1866. He was the eighth child in a family of sixteen children, being one ...

. Later collections include ''Pendel'' (1997), ''Stormstigen'' (2002), ''Nedtegnelser'' (2007), and ''Nytte og utførte gjerninger'' (2016). She has also translated poetry by

Emily Dickinson Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massac ...

and

Anne Carson Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across ...

into Norwegian language. Hødnebø was awarded in 2003, and 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 2005. She received in 2018 (for 2017).

Early and personal life

Hødnebø was born in

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

in 1962, and is educated as

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

References

1962 births Living people Writers from Oslo Norwegian women poets Norwegian magazine editors Norwegian women magazine editors {{Norway-writer-stub