Guri Vesaas
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Biography
Vesaas was born in Vinje on 13 January 1939,[2][3] a daughter of novelist Tarjei Vesaas and poet Halldis Moren Vesaas, and sister of Olav Vesaas.[4] She graduated as cand.mag. from the University of Oslo in 1965.[2][3]
She has translated more than 50 children's books into Norwegian, using the pseudonym Hanna Midtbø,[2] after the farm Midtbø in Vinje, where she grew up.
She received the Bastian Prize in 2005 for her translations of children's literature.[5] She was awarded the Brage Prize honorary award in 2007,[6] and also the Nynorsk User of the Year award.[3][7] She was awarded Template:Ill in 2022.[8]
Awards
- NBU-prisen 1996[2]
- Bastian Prize 2005[5]
- Brage Prize 2007 – honorary award[2]
- Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav 2007 – knight, 1st class.[2]
References
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