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{{Short description|Norwegian writer and musician (1937–2004)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|3|6|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Oslo]], Norway
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|12|21|1937|3|6|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Asker]]
| nationality = Norwegian
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| parents =
| mother = [[Gerd Nyquist]]
| children =
| relatives = [[Olav Mosebekk]] (father-in-law)
| occupation = Novelist<br>Poet<br>Children's writer<br>Musician
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'''Arild Nyquist''' (6 March 1937 – 21 December 2004) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, writer of children's books and musician.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.aschehoug.no/Forfattere/Vaare-forfattere/Arild_Nyquist |title=Arild Nyquist |publisher =H. Aschehoug & Co|accessdate= April 1, 2018}}</ref>

==Biography==
He was born in [[Oslo]], the son of Arild Otto Nyquist (1911–74) and [[Gerd Nyquist]] (1913–84).
His father was a shipbroker and his mother a novelist. He grew up on Røa just outside Oslo.
At the age of 23, Nyquist began working at the [[Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry]] to train as an artist. However this education was interrupted. He was employed as a formation teacher at a primary school at Stamsund in [[Lofoten]] (1968–1976).
In 1960, he married Anne-Kari Mosebekk, daughter of artist [[Olav Mosebekk]] (1910–2001).
<ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Arild Nyquist |encyclopedia=[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]]|first=Øystein |last=Rottem |authorlink=Øystein Rottem |editor=[[Knut Helle|Helle, Knut]]|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Arild_Nyquist/utdypning |language=Norwegian |accessdate=17 January 2013}}</ref>

He made his literary debut in 1963 with the novel ''Ringer i et sommervann''. Nyquist was awarded [[Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment]] in 1971.<ref name=nygaards-legat>{{cite web | url=http://www.forfatterportalen.no/litteraturpriser/legat.htm | title=Mads Wiel Nygaards Legat |publisher=Forfatterportalen.no |language=Norwegian |accessdate=17 February 2009}}</ref> He was nominated for the [[Nordic Council's Literature Prize]] in 1994 for the self-biographic novel ''Ungdom''.<ref name=nordic-litprize>{{cite web |title=Nominerede 1994
|url=https://www.norden.org/sv/node/29393
|website=norden.org
|language=Danish |accessdate=19 July 2019 }}</ref>

He died in [[Asker]] on 21 December 2004.<ref name=nbl/>

==Selected works==
*''Nå er det jul igjen! og andre dikt'' (1972)
*''Kelner!'' (1979)
*''Havet. Et dikt om livet og døden'' (1985)
*''I avisen'' (1981)
*''Reisen til Drammen'' (1982)
*'' Flyvende fru Rosenkranz'' (1983)
*''Jeg heter Arild'' (1990)
*''Knapphuset'' (1995)

==References==
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{{Portal|Children's literature}}

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[[Category:Writers from Oslo]]
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[[Category:Oslo National Academy of the Arts alumni]]
[[Category:Grappa Music artists]]
[[Category:Norwegian male novelists]]
[[Category:Norwegian male poets]]
[[Category:20th-century Norwegian male musicians]]
[[Category:20th-century Norwegian novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century Norwegian poets]]
[[Category:20th-century Norwegian male writers]]

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