Ole Robert Sunde

In residence: November-December 2020

Born in 1952, he made his debut in 1982 with the poetry collection Hakk i hæl. Since his second book, Fra dette punktet trekker jeg en omkrets (1982), he has used a variety of genres – poetry, essays, prose and novels – to develop a remarkable, heterogeneous body of work. He has won the Aschehoug Prize and Gyldendal Prize for his writing. His novel Krigen var min families historie (2012) was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize.

During Sunde’s residency an in-conversation event was hosted with him at the Svalbard Library, a recording of the event can be heard here (in Norwegian):