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Harald Sverdrup

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Harald Sverdrup

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1923-05-29 (Buksnes (Gravdal), Lofoten, Norway)
Died
1992-06-26 (Tønsberg, Norway) age 69
Nationality
Norway
Languages
Norwegian
Residence History
Lofoten → Risør → Hvitsten → Rjukan → Oslo → Kalbakken → Stokke

Career

Occupations
poet, children's writer
Active Years
1948-1992

Awards

Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature
1958
Work: Sankt Elms ild
Organization: Norwegian Critics' Association
Result: 受賞
Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment
1959
Result: 受賞
Dobloug Prize
1978
Result: 受賞
Riksmål Society Literature Prize
1985
Organization: Riksmål Society
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Drøm og drift

1948 poetry collection

Poetry debut collection

Sankt Elms ild

1958 poetry collection

Literary breakthrough poetry collection

Snurrebassen og andre tøysevers

1958 children's poetry

Children's poetry collection

Isbjørnfantasi

1961 poetry collection

Sang til solen

1964 poetry collection

Negeren og solsikken

1965 prose

Paradisets barn

1968 prose

Farlig vind

1969 poetry collection

Fredløse ord

1971 poetry collection

Grønn kalender

1974 poetry collection

Legacy

Norwegian poet and children's writer who received several literary prizes.

Trivia

  • Participated in resistance work during World War II, fled to Sweden and Britain in 1944. Served as ground crew for Norwegian Spitfire Wing in Belgium, Holland, and Germany.
  • Related to many notable Sverdrup family members, including oceanographer Harald Ulrik Sverdrup Jr. and others.