Anne Oterholm

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Anne Oterholm (born January 18, 1964 in Illinois , USA ) is a Norwegian writer and literary critic.

Life

Oterholm earned a degree as a Cand. philol. at the University of Oslo with French literature major.

Your first two novels are characterized by a stylish minimalism. Erotic motifs occur. The novel Avslutningen (1999) is more philosophical. Tilfeldigvis begjær (2001) is a novel about desire and boredom. For Tilfeldigvis begjær she was nominated in 2001 for the novel prize of the P2 listener as well as in 2009 for Toget fra Ajaccio , for which she won the Aschehoug literature prize in 2010.

From 2005 to 2012 Oterholm was chairman of the Norwegian Writers' Association Den norske Forfatterforeningen ; She has been its vice-president since 1999.

She then became an advisory member of the advisory board of the Norwegian state cultural authority Norsk Kulturrådet from 2014 to 2017 and, since 2013, full-time director of the Creative Writing course at Tromsø University .

After twenty years at the Gyldendal publishing house , she moved to Oktober 2015 with her new novel Liljekonvallpiken .

Works

  • Løgnhals (Novel, October, 2018) ISBN 978-82-495-1973-6 .
  • Liljekonvallpiken (novel, October, 2015)
  • Toget fra Ajaccio (novel, Gyldendal, 2009)
  • Sannheten (Roman, Gyldendal, 2004)
  • Etter kaffen (Roman, Gyldendal, 2002)
  • Tilfeldigvis begjær (Roman, Gyldendal, 2001)
  • Avslutningen (Roman, Gyldendal, 1999)
  • Avbrutt selskap (novel, 1996)
  • Ikke noe annet enn det du vil (novel, 1995)

Awards

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Author profile Anne Oterholm at Verlag Gyldendal, accessed on October 16, 2019 (Norwegian)
  2. ↑ see Oterholm article in store norske leksikon
  3. ↑ Den norske Forfatterforening , snl.no, accessed on October 16, 2019 (Norwegian)
  4. ↑ a b At "Fifty Shades" er literature, orker jeg ikke å være med på: Anne Oterholm bytter forlag i protest , dagbladet.no from August 19, 2015, accessed on October 16, 2019 (Norwegian)
  5. ↑ leder for forfatterstudiet i Tromsø , accessed on October 16, 2019 (Norwegian)
  6. ↑ 'Løgnhals' , oktober.no, accessed on October 17, 2019 (Norwegian)
personal data
SURNAME Oterholm, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Illinois , United States