Ragnar Hovland
{{Short description|Norwegian novelist, essayist, poet, and writer}}
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| name = Ragnar Hovland
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| caption = Hovland in 2013
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age | 1952|4|15| df=y}}
| birth_place = Bergen, Norway
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| nationality = Norwegian
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| occupation = novelist, essayist, poet and children's writer
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| relations = Ragnvald Indrebø (grandfather)
| awards = {{ubl | Brage Prize (1992)|
Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (2001)|
Dobloug Prize (2008)|
Bastian Prize for Children's and Young-Adult Books (2008) }}
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Ragnar Hovland (born 15 April 1952 in Bergen) is a Norwegian novelist, essayist, poet, and writer of children's books.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Ragnar Hovland |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Ragnar_Hovland |language=no |access-date=6 July 2018}}{{cite encyclopedia|title=Ragnar Hovland |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Sverre |last=Tusvik |editor=Helle, Knut |editor-link=Knut Helle |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Ragnar_Hovland | language=no |access-date=6 July 2018}}
Personal life
Career
Hovland made his literary debut in 1979, with the novel {{ill|Alltid fleire dagar|nn}}. The book follows four young boys from secondary school to college. Their interests circle around rock music, alcohol, a dose of politics and girls.{{cite book |title=Norges Litteraturhistorie. Etterkrigslitteraturen |chapter= Ragnar Hovland – livet på veiene |pages=458–473 |first=Øystein |last=Rottem |author-link=Øystein Rottem |volume=3 |publisher=Cappelen |location=Oslo |year=1998 |language=no |isbn=82-02-16426-5 }}
He followed up with the short story collection {{ill|Vegen smal og porten trang|no}} (1981). The collection includes the stories "Dei siste beat-poetane i Midthordaland", where two wannabe poets are expelled from the gang and instead read their works for a herd of wet sheep; further "Sommarens blå flygel", where two young lovers are surprised by the boy's father, who expresses concern that they could catch a cold since they lie naked on the ground. In the surrealistic story "Songen om Emilia", a young man finds a dead body on the floor three days in a row, and is unable to get rid of the corps, even if he pushes them into the cupboard every time.
The novel Sveve over vatna (1982) is set in Bergen, and the protagonist is a student who gets involved in various strange adventures.
He was awarded the Brage Prize in 1992 for the children's book Ein motorsykkel i natta.{{cite web|url=http://www.brageprisen.no/tekster/tidligere.shtml|title=Tidligere vinnere av Brageprisen|language=no|access-date=2008-10-14|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610082646/http://www.brageprisen.no/tekster/tidligere.shtml|archive-date=2008-06-10}} He received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 2001, for the novel Ei vinterreise.
Awards
Bibliography
; About Ragnar Hovland
- Halvor Folgerø og Finn Tokvam Ler dei no, så har eg vunne: møte med Ragnar Hovland 2012
; By Ragnar Hovland
- Stille natt (novel) 2011
- Kunsten å komme heim og andre essay (essays) 2011
- Dr. Munks popleksikon (reference work / autobiography) 2008
- Fredlaus (children's and youth book) 2006, 2008
- 1964 (novel) 2006, 2007
- Brevet 2006
- Verdt å vite (trur eg) (essays) 2002
- Norske gleder (essays) 2002
- Ei vinterreise 2001
- Psst! : kubanske notat (poems) 2000
- Åleine i Alpane 1999
- Halve sanninga. Tre versjonar 1998
- Detektivforteljing (Children's book) 1998
- Guillaume Appollinaire 1996
- Norrøne gudar 1996
- Dr. Munks testamente (novel) 1996
- Katten til Ivar Aasen møter hunden frå Baskerville (poems, Children's book) 1996
- Eline og Julie tar ferja (novel) 1994
- Ein dag i Sherwoodskogen (Children's book) 1994
- Bjørnen Alfred og hunden Samuel forlet pappkartongen (Children's book) 1993
- Over Bali og Hawaii (drama) 1992
- Ei lang reise (Children's book) 1992
- Ein motorsykkel i natta (novel) 1992
- Gjest Bårdsen døyr åleine ved Nilens breidd 1992
- Paradis (novel) 1991
- Novelleår (red.) 1990
- Konspirasjoner (essays) 1990
- Sjølvmord i Skilpaddekaféen (novel) 1989
- Mercedes (Young adult) 1989
- Skrivestadier 1989
- Utanfor sesongen 1988
- Love me tender (drama) 1988
- Emil og kaffikokaren (Children's book) 1987
- Sjømannen, tante Elida og dei største eventyr (Children's book) 1986
- Elefantmusikken (poems) 1985
- Professor Moreaus løyndom (novel) 1985
- Bussen til Peking (novel) 1984
- Jakta på Salamanderen (Children's book) 1983
- Under snøen (novel) 1983
- Sveve over vatna (novel) 1982, 1988, 1995, 2008
- Vegen smal og porten trang 1981
- Den flygjande sykkelen og andre forteljingar (Children's book) 1981
- Dei siste beat-poetane i Midthordaland (novella) 1981
- Det får stå til (Children's book) 1980
- Alltid fleire dagar (novel) 1979, 1978
References
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Category:Nynorsk-language writers
Category:20th-century Norwegian novelists
Category:21st-century Norwegian novelists
Category:Norwegian children's writers