Liv Køltzow

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Liv Køltzow

Liv Køltzow (born January 14, 1945 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian writer and is considered an important Norwegian feminist author of the 1970s.

life and work

Liv Køltzow studied the history of ideas , history and English and published in the literary and cultural magazine Profil , which included modern experimental texts. In her first stories, Øyet i treet (The Eye in the Tree, 1970), she tries to “combine a modernist narrative method with a gender issue”.

Køltzow is influenced by the French nouveau roman ; their texts have an expressive style, but are sometimes rather poor in action. In her novel Historien om Eli , published in 1975 , whose German edition Die Geschichte des Mädchen Eli achieved several editions totaling 74,000 copies, the author describes, without judging, a process of emancipation: the liberation of Eli from the bourgeois confines of her family and marriage.

“ Her stylistic refinement is characterized by suggestive- musical prose, in which the spoken word is a popular stylistic device. The narrative speed adapts to the slow changes of the characters, which has wrongly earned the texts the reputation of being boring. "

- Thomas Seiler

Her biography, published in 1992, about the Norwegian-Danish women's rights activist and writer Amalie Skram Den unge Amalie Skram. Et portrett fra det nittende århundre (The young Amalie Skram. A portrait from the nineteenth century) received a lot of attention.

In 2002, Køltzow was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease . Shortly before, she had completed a rough version of her novel Det avbruttebildung (The broken picture, 2002).

As one of the 25 best novels of the past 25 years, Verden forsvinner (The World Disappears, 1997) was included in the Norwegian Literary Canon , compiled by the daily Dagbladet in 2006. The novel is set in Oslo in 1989. In it, Køltzow describes the marital and professional crisis of a doctor who would have liked to become a writer.

Køltzow was a board member of the Norwegian Writers 'Center from 1971–1973 and a member of the Norwegian Writers' Association from 1982 to 1986. She has received several grants and prizes, including the 1997 Brage Prize ; In 1994 she became the first recipient of the Amalie Skram Prize. In 1988 she was nominated for the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council for her novel Hvem har ditt ansikt (German edition 1989: Who has your face? ) . In 2015 she received the Gyldendal Prize and in 2017 the Norwegian Academy Prize . For her novel Melding til alle reisende (2015) she received the Aschehoug Literature Prize in 2018 .

Liv Køltzow has been married to the literary critic Kjell Heggelund since 1985. She was previously married to the Norwegian writer Espen Haavardsholm from 1966 to 1973.

Publications

Original Norwegian editions

  • 1970: Øyet i treet ( short stories)
  • 1972: Hvem bestemmer about Bjørg og Unni? (Novel)
  • 1975: Histories om Eli (novel)
  • 1980: Løp, mann (novel)
  • 1983: April / November ( short stories)
  • 1988: Hvem har ditt ansikt (novel)
  • 1992: The young Amalie Skram (biography)
  • 1996: Amalie Skrams verden (non-fiction book, together Gunnar Staalesen and Irene Engelstad)
  • 1997: Verden forsvinner (novel)
  • 1998: Noveller i samling ( short stories)
  • 2002: Det avbrutte educates (novel)
  • 2004: Essays 1975-2004 (essays)
  • 2015: Melding til all travelers (novel)

German-language editions

  • The story of the girl Eli . German by Ulrich and Ursel Bracher. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-499-14323-2 .
  • Run man Novel. German by Astrid Arz. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-499-14879-X .
  • Who has your face Novel. German by Astrid Arz. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-499-12486-6 .

literature

  • Toril Brekke: Liv Køltzow . In: Norsk biografisk leksikon .
  • H. Forsås-Scott: Liv Køltzow . In: Larousse Dictionary of Writers . Larousse, Edinburgh 1994, ISBN 0-7523-0006-7 , p. 539.
  • Unni Langås: Forandringens former. A study in Liv Køltzows forfatterskap. 1970-1988 . Aschehoug, Oslo 1999, ISBN 82-03-18198-8 .
  • Thomas Seiler: The undiscovered gender . In: Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-01973-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norsk biografisk leksikon
  2. ^ Mogens Brøndsted (editor): Nordic literary history . Volume II. Fink, Munich 1984
  3. ↑ Information from the German National Library
  4. ↑ The undiscovered gender . In: Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, p. 302.
  5. ↑ Thyra Kirknes: forms Det avbrutte . In: Parkinsonposten , 26, 2008, H. 3, S. 13-17.
  6. ↑ Liv Køltzow er number 13. In: Dagbladet , July 21, 2006. (Internet access from August 6, 2011)
  7. ^ Elisabeth Aasen: Bjørg Vik . In: Norsk biografisk leksikon.
  8. ↑ Aschehougprisen ble i dag tildelt Liv Køltzow , Kritikerlaget of August 30, 2018, accessed September 1, 2019 (Norwegian)
personal data
SURNAME Køltzow, Liv
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo