Olav H. Hauge
Olav Håkonson Hauge (born August 18, 1908 in Ulvik ; † May 23, 1994 ) was a Norwegian poet and translator. The nature of Western Norway is one of the most important motifs in his poetry. But he was also influenced by foreign language, European and Far Eastern poetry.
Life
Hauge was in Ulvik in Western Norway region Hardanger son of Håkon Hauge , a farmer, and Katrina Hakestad born. As a child he read a lot, both Norwegian and English , and later German and French literature. Hauge attended agricultural schools, then Norges Landbrukshøgskole (Norwegian College of Agriculture). He learned to be a gardener and worked as a fruit grower on his parents' farm in Ulvik until the end of his life .
Hauge had published poems in magazines since 1927, but his first book was not published until 1946. From then on he published regularly volumes of poetry and, from 1967, translations of foreign poetry by Bertolt Brecht , Friedrich Hölderlin , Alfred Tennyson , William Butler Yeats and Arthur Rimbaud , among others . With his wife, the artist Bodil Cappelen (* 1930), he wrote the children's book ABC , which appeared in 1986 and contains a poem for each letter of the alphabet . After his death, his diaries, which he had kept since 1924, were also published. In 2006 a selection of his poems was also published in German. There are also translations into English.
Works (selection)
- 1946: Glør i oska
- 1951: Under mountain fall
- 1961: På ørnetuva
- 1966: Dropar i austavind
- 1971: Spør vinden
- 1980: Janglestrå
- 1986: ABC (children's book)
Published in German
- 2012: Collected Poems . Edition Rugerup , Hörby / Sweden, ISBN 978-3-942955-11-9
- 2013: The sea lifts its waves late. Selected poems . Bilingual, translated by Klaus Anders . Wiesenburg, Schweinfurt, ISBN 978-3-937101-97-2
- 2014: my life was a dream. From the diaries 1924-1994 . Translated by Klaus Anders . Edition Rugerup , Hörby / Sweden, ISBN 978-3-942955-43-0
Awards
Hauge has received a variety of literary prizes, including the Kritikerprisen (1961), the Dobloug Prize (1969) and the Aschehougprisen (1978).
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- Horst Bien u. A .: Meyers Taschenlexikon Northern European Literatures , Leipzig 1978
Web links
- Norsk biografisk leksikon , nbl.snl: Olav H Hauge. Forfatter. (Norwegian)
- nrk.no: Olav H. Hauge leste både indianerbøker and Bjørnson da han var good. (November 26, 2011: Links to two audio samples spoken by the author, Norwegian)
- Literature by and about Olav H. Hauge in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Badische-zeitung.de , Literature & Lectures , February 20, 2016, Andreas Kohm: The diaries of the poet and fruit farmer Olav H. Hauge (February 20, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauge, Olav H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hauge, Olav Håkonson (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulvik , Norway |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1994 |