Nationality Norwegian Siblings Mathias Hoem Role Novelist | Name Edvard Hoem Genre Fiction, plays, essays | |
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Born 10 March 1949 (age 75)
Oslo, Norway ( 1949-03-10 ) Occupation Author, novelist, essayist Books Mors og fars historie, Kjaerleikens ferjereiser, Ave Eva, Provetid, The Ferry Crossing, Anna Lena: Roman Awards Norwegian Ibsen Award, Aschehoug Prize Nominations Nordic Council's Literature Prize Similar People Tove Nilsen, Halldis Moren Vesaas, Henrik Ibsen | ||
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Edvard Hoem (born 10 March 1949) is a Norwegian novelist, dramatist, lyricist, psalmist and government scholar. He made his literary debut in 1969, with the poetry collection Som grønne musikantar. He was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1974 for the novel Kjærleikens ferjereiser. He was awarded the Melsom Prize in 2006, and the Peter Dass Prize in 2007 for the novel Mors og fars historie. He received the Ibsen Prize in 2008 for the play Mikal Hetles siste ord.
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Several of his books (Kjærleikens ferjereiser (1974), Prøvetid (1984), Ave Eva (1987), Mors og fars historie (2005)) have been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize, but did not win this award.
Hoem was the director of the theater, Teatret Vårt (in Molde) 1997–1999. He has translated at least eleven of Shakespeare's plays into Norwegian.
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Edvard Hoem's most famous retranslations (Year of translation in brackets).