Bjørn Aamodt

Norwegian seaman, industrial worker and poet

Gyldendal's Endowment (1994)
Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize (1997)
Dobloug Prize (2003)

Bjørn Aamodt (24 February 1944 – 29 April 2006) was a Norwegian seaman, industrial worker and poet.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Aamodt was born in Bærum and died in Oslo, Norway. The son of artist and footballer Asbjørn Aamodt, he graduated artium at Valler Gymnasium in 1962 and later studied psychology at the University of Oslo, where he graduated in 1975. Between 1962 and 1972, he worked as a sailor and dockworker. He was later employed as a crane operator and metal worker.^[2]

He made his literary debut with the poetry collection Tilegnet in 1973. Aamodt was awarded Gyldendal's Endowment jointly with Kjersti Scheen in 1994, the Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize in 1997, and the Dobloug Prize in 2003. He was twice nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1995 for ABC and again in 1998 for Anchorage. ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7]

Selected works

Tilegnet - 1973
Knuter, Mulm og andre dikt - 1980
Stå - 1990
ABC - 1994
Anchorage - 1997
Atom - 2002
Arbeidsstykker og atten tauverk - 2004
Avskjed - 2010

References

^ Eivind Myklebust (28 January 2016). "Bjørn Aamodt". Allkunne. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Bjørn Aamodt". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 16 April 2014.
^ Vidar Iversen. "Gyldendalprisen". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
^ "Halldis Moren Vesaas-prisen". Forfatterportalen. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
^ Vidar Iversen. "Doblougprisen". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
^ "Nordisk råds litteraturpris". Nordisk Samarbeid. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
^ "Tidigare pristagare och nomineringar". www.norden.org. Archived from the original on 7 April 2010. Retrieved 16 February 2009.