Arild Nyquist
Arild Nyquist (born March 6, 1937 in Oslo , † December 21, 2004 in Asker ) was a Norwegian writer.
Life
Arild Nyquist was a son of the writer Gerd Nyquist (1913-1984). He was married to a daughter of the painter Olav Mosebekk . His first novel Ringer i et sommervann was published in 1963. Arild Nyquist wrote poems, novels, children's stories, and he composed.
In 1971 Nyquist received the "Mads Wiel Nygaard Sponsorship Award" (Norwegian: "Mads Wiel Nygaards legat"). In 1994 he was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for his autobiographical novel Ungdom . Because of his nonsense poem Now it's Christmas again in his volume of poems Nå er det jul igjen! og andre dikt , in 1972, he was attacked on the front page of a tabloid, and the promotion of literature in Norway was then discussed in the Norwegian Parliament .
Works (selection)
- Ringer i et sommervann . 1963
literature
- Lemma Arild Nyquist in: Norsk biografisk leksikon
Web links
- Literature by and about Arild Nyquist in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Øystein Rottem : Arild Nyquist , in: Store norske leksikon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Øystein Rottem: Arild Nyquist , in: Norsk biografisk leksikon
- ↑ https://www.aschehoug.no/Om-Aschehoug/Aschehougs-priser/Mads-Wiel-Nygaards-legat
- ↑ Aldo Keel: Christmas in Nordic: Jesus in the Sauna , NZZ, December 24, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nyquist, Arild |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 2004 |
| Place of death | Asker |