Gunstein Bakke - World Literary Awards

プロフィール

性別: 男性
生誕: 1968-03-30 （Setesdal, Aust-Agder, Norway）
国籍: Norwegian
言語: Norwegian
居住地歴: Gotland, Sweden → Oslo, Norway

経歴

職業: novelist, writer
活動期間: 2000年〜

受賞歴

年	賞名	対象作品	部門	主催	結果
—	EU Prize for Literature	Maud and Aud	—	EU Prize for Literature	winner
—	Brage Prize (shortlisted)	Maud and Aud	—	Brage Prize	shortlisted
—	P2 Listeners' Novel Prize (shortlisted)	Maud and Aud	—	NRK P2	shortlisted

EU Prize for Literature

対象作品: Maud and Aud

主催: EU Prize for Literature

結果: winner

Brage Prize (shortlisted)

対象作品: Maud and Aud

主催: Brage Prize

結果: shortlisted

P2 Listeners' Novel Prize (shortlisted)

対象作品: Maud and Aud

主催: NRK P2

結果: shortlisted

受賞・候補エディション

European Union Prize for Literature 1回登壇

第4回（2012年） Winner

作品

代表作

Kontoret

2000年 novel

Debut novel. A work focusing on workplace dynamics and interpersonal relationships, emphasizing characters' inner lives and everyday details.

workplacehuman relationshipseveryday life

Maud and Aud

2011年 novel

A story revolving around two women, Maud and Aud, exploring their lives and relationship. The novel sensitively depicts southern Norwegian landscapes, memory, motherhood, and absence, and has been widely acclaimed.

motherhoodmemoryrural/southern Norwegian landscapes

翻訳

Maud and Aud

全著作

Kontoret
Maud and Aud

作品の翻訳

Maud and Aud

作風・主題

文体: contemporary Norwegian realist and introspective styleshort, fragmentary sentences and segmented structure
頻出モチーフ: motherhoodcommunity and rural lifememory and loss

評価・遺産

Recognized for depicting southern Norwegian landscapes and inner lives, Bakke gained international attention when Maud og Aud won the EU Prize for Literature. His works have been translated and presented abroad.

豆知識

Debuted in 2000 with Kontoret.
Maud og Aud (2011) won the EU Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for several Norwegian prizes.
Co-initiated and edited the anthology Respons 22/7 in 2011 with Eirik Ingebrigtsen.
Reported to live in Gotland and Oslo (citation needed).