Jan Erik Vold | |
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![]() Vold in 2010 | |
Born | Oslo, Norway | 18 October 1939
Occupation | Lyric poet Jazz vocal reciter Translator Author |
Period | 1965–present |
Genre | Biography Non-fiction Poetry Poems Anthologies |
Relatives | Ragnar Vold (father) |
Jan Erik Vold (born 18 October 1939) is a Norwegian lyric poet, reciter, translator and author. [1] He was a member of the so-called "Profil generation", the circle attached to the literary magazine Profil . Throughout his career, he has contributed to modernist Norwegian poetry. Jan Erik Vold is currently living in Stockholm.
He was born in Oslo, the son of journalist Ragnar Vold. [2]
He has won numerous awards, including the 1965 Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris for his literary début, Mellom speil og speil; Gyldendal's Endowment in 1968; the Aschehoug Prize in 1981; the Brage Prize for Poetry in 1993 and Honorary Award in 1997; the Gyldendal Prize in 2000; the Anvil Award in 2004; and he was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1979 and 1999. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Oslo in 2000.