Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris

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Jan Erik Vold, second winner of Tarjei Vesaas’ debutantpris
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Sylvelin Vatle won the 1991 prize
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Tore Renberg won the 1995 prize
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Trude Marstein won the 1998 prize

Tarjei Vesaas's debutantpris is a prize awarded annually for the best first literary work in Norwegian. It is awarded by the Norwegian Authors' Union, and the organisation's 9-member Literary Caucus constitutes the jury for the prize. They choose the winner based on a free and independent evaluation on aesthetic criteria.

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In accordance with an agreement between the Authors' Union and the Norwegian Publishers' Association, all newly published Norwegian literature is sent to all members of the Literary Caucus. The members thus choose the year's winner without there being any direct application for the prize. The winner is chosen at the Literary Caucus' annual 3-day January meeting, at which the caucus performs most of the tasks within its mandate, concerning stipends, guaranteed income and prizes. The prize is usually awarded in March.

The Norwegian Publishers' Association is a publishing house association in Norway.

A stipend is a regular fixed sum of money paid for services or to defray expenses, such as for scholarship, internship, or apprenticeship. It is often distinct from an income or a salary because it does not necessarily represent payment for work performed; instead it represents a payment that enables somebody to be exempt partly or wholly from waged or salaried employment in order to undertake a role that is normally unpaid or voluntary, or which cannot be measured in terms of a task .

The prize was instituted in 1964 by Tarjei Vesaas with the money he received as winner of the Nordic Council's Literature Prize that year. Reflecting his intent, the literary merit of the work is the most important criterion, but if possible the prize is awarded to a young writer, 35 at the most. [1] [2] Vesaas and his wife Halldis Moren Vesaas (who were not themselves involved in the judging) were delighted that in its second year the prize went to Jan Erik Vold, who had been their lodger in summer 1964 at the 'writer's hut' Juvstøyl.

Tarjei Vesaas Norwegian author

Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Vesaas is widely considered to be one of Norway's greatest writers of the twentieth century and perhaps its most important since World War II.

The Nordic Council Literature Prize is awarded for a work of literature written in one of the languages of the Nordic countries, that meets "high literary and artistic standards". Established in 1962, the prize is awarded every year, and is worth 350,000 Danish kroner (2008). Eligible works are typically novels, plays, collections of poetry, short stories or essays, or other works that were published for the first time during the last four years, or in the case of works written in Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish, within the last two years. The prize is one of the most prestigious awards that Nordic authors can win.

Halldis Moren Vesaas Norwegian writer

Halldis Moren Vesaas was a Norwegian poet, translator and writer of children's books. She established herself as one of the leading Norwegian writers of her generation.

Winners

YearAuthorWork
2018 Lars Svisdal Seg til inkjes
2017 Zeshan Shakar Tante Ulrikkes vei
2016 Jan Kristoffer Dale Arbeidsnever
2015 Kenneth Moe Rastløs
2014 Amalie Kasin Lerstang Europa
2013 Gine Cornelia Pedersen Null
2012 Peter Franziskus Strassegger Stasia [3]
2011 Lina Undrum Mariussen Finne deg der inne og hente deg ut [4]
2010 Helga Flatland Bli hvis du kan. Reis hvis du må [5]
2009 Eivind Hofstad Evjemo
Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold 		Vekk meg hvis jeg sovner
Jo fortere jeg går, jo mindre er jeg [6]
2008 Lars Petter Sveen Køyre frå Fræna [7]
2007 Nils Henrik Smith Manhattan Skyline
2006 Thomas Marco Blatt Slik vil jeg måle opp verden
2005 Mette Karlsvik Vindauga i matsalen vender mot fjorden
2004 Ole Asbjørn Ness Det er natt
2003 Sigmund Løvåsen Nyryddinga
2002 Heidi Marie Kriznik Applaus
2001 Carl Frode Tiller Skråninga
2000 Mirjam Kristensen Dagene er gjennomsiktige
1999 Gunnar Wærness Kongesplint
1998 Trude Marstein Sterk sult, plutselig kvalme
1997 Lars Ramslie Biopsi
1996 Steinar Opstad Tavler og bud
1995 Harald Rosenløw Eeg Glasskår
1995 Tore Renberg Sovende floke
1994 Cathrine Grøndahl Riv ruskende rytmer
1993 Bertrand Besigye Og du dør så langsomt at du tror du lever
1992 Thure Erik Lund Tanger
1991 Sylvelin Vatle Alle kjenner vel presten?
1990 Stein Versto Ho blei borte i trappene
1989 Anne Grete Hollup Maria og knivmakeren
1988 Torun Lian Tre skuespill
1987 Aagot Vinterbo-Hohr Palimpsest
1986 Sissel Lie Tigersmil
1985 Morten Harry Olsen For alt vi er verdt
1984 Anne Bøe Silkestein
1983 Kjell Gjerseth Chakoo
1982 Roy Jacobsen Fangeliv
1981 Frank A. Jenssen Saltbingen
1980 Jo Eggen Ting og tings skygger
1979 Hans Herbjørnsrud Vitner
1978 Sissel Solbjørg Bjugn Den første avisa på Lofotveggen
1977 Bjarne Rønning Bjarne Huldasons sjøreise
1976 Lars Saabye Christensen Historien om Gly
1975 Ingvar Moe Løktastolpefrø
1974 Karin Mathisen (Karin Fossum)Kanskje i morgen
1973 Steinar Lem Signaler
1972 Erling Pedersen Rottenes konge
1971 Eivind Reinertsen Lukk opp dørene, krigen er over
1970 Joachim Aremk (Karl Halvor Teigen)Tapetdører
1969 Hans Sande Strime
1968 Rolf Sagen Dørklinker
1967 Johan Fredrik Grøgaard Dyvekes grav
1966 Tor Obrestad Kollisjon (poem), Vind (novellas)
1965 Jan Erik Vold Mellom speil og speil
1964 Sigmund Jakobsen Gjennom brend by

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References

  1. ↑ Anne Oterholm, "Tarjei Vesaas Debutantpris 2009!", Den norske Forfatterforening 2 March 2010 (in Norwegian)
  2. ↑ Halldis Moren Vesaas wrote of the establishment of the prize in her memoir, Båten om dagen (1976):
    Så snart Tarjei fekk visst at han skulle få denne prisen, hadde han sagt at han ville gje bort dei pengane. Dei skulle settast av til eit stipendfond, det som seinare fekk namnet Tarjei Vesaas' debutantlegat. Det skulle delast ut kvart år til ein talentfull og ung – helst ikkje over 30 år – debutant. Dette at dei som fekk legatet skulle vere unge, grunngav givaren med at han mintest frå si eiga første skrivetid kor mykje ei oppmuntring kunne ha å seie for ein debuterande ung forfattar. Heile ideen viser òg kor positivt innstilt han var til ungdommen og til alt det leitande og eksperimenterande som no tok til å prege den unge diktinga her til lands. (As soon as Tarjei learnt that he was to receive that prize, he had said that he wanted to pay back the money. It was to be put aside for a stipend fund that would later receive the name 'Tarjei Vesaas' debutantlegat' (debut endowment). It was to be paid out annually to a talented and young - at least not over 30 - first-time author. That those who should receive the stipend should be young contributors at the beginning of their careers, since he remembered from his own first time writing how much encouragement could mean to a young author publishing for the first time. The whole idea also shows how positively disposed he was towards youth and towards all the seeking and experimenting which was now beginning to characterise young people's writing here in this country.) Cited from p. 218 in her memoirs, issued together under the title I Midtbøs bakkar (1979 and 1995).
  3. ↑ Elise Hellem Ratvik and Jonas Sætre, "Dette er årets forfatterdebutant: Den Norske Forfatterforeningen gir Tarjei Vesaas debutantpris til den nyutdanna psykologen Peter Franziskus Strassegger for boken Stasia", NRK, 3 March 2013 (in Norwegian)
  4. ↑ "Tarjei Vesaas Debutantpris til Lina Undrum Mariussen" Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine , Den norske Forfatterforening 3 March 2013 (in Norwegian)
  5. ↑ "Tarjei Vesaas Debutantpris til Helga Flatland" Archived 2012-02-20 at the Wayback Machine , Den norske Forfatterforening 20 March 2011 (in Norwegian)
  6. ↑ Stein Versto, "Delt debutantpris for 2009" (Split debutant prize for 2009), Den norske Forfatterforening 14 March 2010 (in Norwegian)
  7. ↑ Bjarte Breiteig, "Tarjei Vesaas Debutantpris til Lars Petter Sveen", Den norske Forfatterforening 21 March 2009 (in Norwegian)
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