Poet. Born at a farm in Ulvik, he was largely a self-educated man who earned his living as a farmer, orchardist and gardener on a small plot of land near his birthplace, a village in the Hardangerfjord region of western Norway. He lived a secluded life where his books often became a substitute to human contact. Before he turned fifty, he was admitted several times to the psychriatic ward due to emotional breakdowns. He became Norway's great poet of the rural landscape, living simply, and supporting himself on sales from three acres of apple trees. His poetry is now seen as one of the main achievements of twentieth-century Norwegian literature, and has been translated into 25 languages. He wrote eleven highly acclaimed volumes of poetry, a children's book, and five collections of translations of German, French, English, and American literature. Often epigrammatic, yet lyrical in impulse, his poems have a serenity which makes them unusually rewarding. His poems have the attractive spare quality of someone who doesn't waste words, in which he asks that we only bring a hint when he asks for truth. As a model of such discretion, he mentions that birds carry away from a lake only a few drops of water, and the wind takes from the ocean a single grain of salt. He has won several Scandinavian prizes for his works, which include "Leaf-Huts and Snow-Houses" and "Trusting your Life to Water and Eternity". He was married to Norwegian tapestry artist Bodil Cappelen.
Poet. Born at a farm in Ulvik, he was largely a self-educated man who earned his living as a farmer, orchardist and gardener on a small plot of land near his birthplace, a village in the Hardangerfjord region of western Norway. He lived a secluded life where his books often became a substitute to human contact. Before he turned fifty, he was admitted several times to the psychriatic ward due to emotional breakdowns. He became Norway's great poet of the rural landscape, living simply, and supporting himself on sales from three acres of apple trees. His poetry is now seen as one of the main achievements of twentieth-century Norwegian literature, and has been translated into 25 languages. He wrote eleven highly acclaimed volumes of poetry, a children's book, and five collections of translations of German, French, English, and American literature. Often epigrammatic, yet lyrical in impulse, his poems have a serenity which makes them unusually rewarding. His poems have the attractive spare quality of someone who doesn't waste words, in which he asks that we only bring a hint when he asks for truth. As a model of such discretion, he mentions that birds carry away from a lake only a few drops of water, and the wind takes from the ocean a single grain of salt. He has won several Scandinavian prizes for his works, which include "Leaf-Huts and Snow-Houses" and "Trusting your Life to Water and Eternity". He was married to Norwegian tapestry artist Bodil Cappelen.
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