Inger Elisabeth Hansen
Inger Elisabeth Hansen (born 20 April 1950) is a Norwegian poet and translator. She has been awarded the Dobloug Prize, the Brage Prize, and the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. She was president of the Norwegian Writers' Union from 1997 to 1999.
Inger Elisabeth Hansen
- Name
- Inger Elizabeth Hansen
- Born
- 20 April 1950
- Birthplace
- Oslo, Norway
- Occupation
- Poet & translator
- Nationality
- Norway
- Honours
- Dobloug Prize · Aschehoug Prize · Gyldendal Prize · Gyldendal's Endowment · Brage Award for Fiction
- Languages
- Norwegian
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Inger Elisabeth Hansen (born 20 April 1950) is a Norwegian poet and translator. She has been awarded the Dobloug Prize, the Brage Prize, and the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. She was president of the Norwegian Writers' Union from 1997 to 1999.
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Inger Elisabeth Hansen (born 1950) is a children's writer, poet and translator, among other activities, of Norwegian nationality. The children's writer was born in Oslo.
Languages used include Norwegian. Honours include Aschehoug Prize, Brage Award for Fiction and Dobloug Prize, among others.
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• Name — Inger Elizabeth Hansen • Born — 20 April 1950 • Birthplace — Oslo, Norway • Occupation — Poet & translator • Genre — Poetry Fiction Children's books Essays • Period — 1976–present
Personal life
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Hansen was born in Oslo on 20 April 1950.
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Literary career
Her poetry collection Trask was awarded the Brage Prize in 2003 and nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2004. An extensive selection of her poetry in Spanish will be published by Bartleby in 2010. In addition to writing her own poetry she has translated Cesar Vallejo, Juan Gelman, Rosario Castellanos and other Spanish and Latin-American poets into Norwegian, as well as Maryam Azimi and Märta Tikkanen. She has also taught Spanish-language literature at the University of Oslo, and served as president of the Norwegian Writers' Union from 1997 to 1999. She was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 2015.
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Inger Elisabeth Hansen is recorded as having received Dobloug Prize, Aschehoug Prize and Gyldendal Prize.
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Inger Elisabeth Hansen born at Oslo.
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Inger Elisabeth Hansen received Dobloug Prize, Aschehoug Prize, Gyldendal Prize, Gyldendal's Endowment and Brage Award for Fiction.
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• Gyldendal's Endowment 1986 • Aschehoug Prize 1994 • Dobloug Prize 1994 • Brage Prize 2003
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