Great Dahle

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Gro Dahle (born May 15, 1962 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian writer .

Life

Gro Dahle 2005

The daughter of the President of the Worldwatch Institute , Øystein Dahle, and the judge Nina Frisak grew up in Tønsberg , Aruba and New Jersey . She studied English studies, history of ideas and psychology and completed her master's degree at the University of Oslo and also studied creative writing at Telemark University .

She made her literary debut in 1987 with the volume of poetry Audiens ( audience ). This was followed by other volumes of poetry, Apens evangelium (1989), Linneapasjonen (1992), Regnværsgåter (1994), Hundre tusen timer (1996) and Alle fugler (2007). Over the years she published one to three new books almost every year, half of them children's literature, one third poetry, but also dramas and prose, children's plays, radio plays, a libretto for a youth opera, three volumes of novels and three novels. Taken together, according to the list in the SNL (as of 2019), that is a total of 51 book publications. Many of her children's books were created in collaboration with her husband, the illustrator and author Svein Nyhus . She regularly gives creative writing courses in Norway and Sweden.

Gro Dahle has received several national literary prizes for her work. In 1999 she was the official festival poet at the Bergen International Festival . In 2003 she won the norwegian national children's book award. Ministry of Culture for Sinna Mann ( Bösemann ), a book about a young boy who witnesses domestic violence against his mother. This book on a sensitive subject in child psychology also enjoyed great international success and has been translated into numerous languages.

Dahle is a down-to-earth, imaginative and humorous writer who often focuses on psychological problems in living together and relationships.

Gro Dahle lives and works together with her husband Svein Nyhus partly on the island of Tjøme . Their daughter Kaia Dahle Nyhus , born in 1990, followed in the footsteps of her parents as an illustrator as well as a children's book author, made her literary debut in 2014 with her first book publication and received the Norwegian critics' praise in the children's book category for her fifth book Verden sa ja (2018).

Works in German

Awards

  • 1998: Vestfolds Literature Prize
  • 1998: Aschehougprisen
  • 2000: Cappelen Prize
  • 2002: Brage Prize for the picture book Snill (with illustrator Svein Nyhus)
  • 2003: Teskjekjerring prizes
  • 2003: Norwegian Children's Book Prize. Ministry of Culture for Sinna Mann (together with Svein Nyhus)
  • 2014: Critics' prizes for best barne- and ungdomsbok for the picture book Akvarium (together with Svein Nyhus)
  • 2015: Literature Prize from the Norwegian School Librarians Association
  • 2015: Triztan Vindtorn Poesipris
  • 2016: Riksmålsforbundets barne- and ungdomsbokpris for Blekkspruten
  • 2019: Special prize from the Ministry of Culture in the field of children's and youth literature for Gro Dahle, Svein Nyhus and Kaia Dahle Nyhus together
  • 2019: Silver pen for Bösemann (together with Svein Nyhus and Christel Hildebrandt)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Author entry Gro Dahle at the International Literature Festival Berlin , accessed September 22, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d e Author profile at Verlag Cappelen Damm (Norwegian)
  3. ↑ Short biography of the author Gro Dahle on the SNL, accessed September 22, 2019 (Norwegian)
  4. ↑ Dahle and Nyhus: "Bösemann" - children's book about domestic violence , deutschlandfunkkultur.de of May 8, 2019, accessed September 22, 2019
  5. ↑ Book fair appearance of the author couple , accessed September 22, 2019
  6. ↑ Critics' prizes for best barne- og ungdomsbok , accessed September 22, 2019 (Norwegian)
  7. ↑ VG on Aschehougprisen for Gro Dahle 1998
  8. ↑ Tønsbergs Blad zum Teskjekjerringprisen for Gro Dahle 2003 , tb.no, accessed September 22, 2019 (Norwegian)
  9. ↑ Riksmålsforbundet October 13, 2016: Riksmålspriser til Tom Egeland og Gro Dahle , accessed September 22, 2019 (Norwegian)
  10. ↑ Norsk barnebokinstitutts presentasjon av vinnerne av KUD-prisene 2018 , accessed September 22, 2019 (Norwegian)
personal data
SURNAME Dahle, Gro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo