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Kåre Holt at his Holmestrand home in 1980

Kåre Holt (10 October 1916 – 15 March 1997) was a Norwegian author. He wrote plays, poetry and about forty books.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Holt was born in Våle Municipality in Vestfold, Norway. His parents were Peder Anton Kristiansen (1870-1958) and Mathilde Sofie Larsen Rønningen (1871-1945). He worked for some time as a journalist at Vestfold Arbeiderblad.^[1]

His initial work was published in 1939, a children's book named Tore Kramkar. As his career progressed, Holt wrote many children's books, plays, radio plays, biographies, and historical novels. The trilogy Kongen about King Sverre Sigurdsson^[2] is considered his principal work. He is also remembered for his mythologically-based novels about icons of Norwegian history, among others Kappløpet about Roald Amundsen which created a sensation when it was published in 1974.^[3]

Holt won The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature 1954, for Mennesker ved en grense. Holt was nominated three times for The Nordic Council's Literature Prize (Nordisk Råds litteraturpris): in 1966 for the novel Kongen—Mannen fra utskjæret, in 1970 for the novel Kongen—Hersker og trell and in 1979 for the novel Sønn av jord og himmel. Holt was made a Knight 1st Class in the Order of St. Olav in 1991. He died during 1997 in Holmestrand Municipality in Vestfold. In 2007, a bust of the author by artist Ada Madssen was unveiled in front of his former house at Reidvintunet, an open-air museum in the village of Hillestad in Holmestrand. ^[4]

Bibliography

Tore Kramkar – (1939)
Tore finner vei – (1940)
Spillemann og kjøgemester – (1941)
Udåden – (1945)
Hurra for han som innstifta da'n – a biography of Henrik Wergeland for young people (1945)
Demring – (1946)
Nattgjester – novel (1948)
Cleng Peerson og Nils med luggen – teen book (1948)
Det store veiskillet – novel (1949)
Brødre – novel (1951)
Hevnen hører meg til – novel (1953)
Mennesker ved en grense – novel (1954)
Det stolte nederlag – novel (1956)
Natt ved sjøen – radioplay (1956)
Storm under morgenstjerne – novel (1958)
Rømlingen Oskar og Maria fra Hulesjøen – teen novel (1959)
Opprørere ved havet – novel (1960)
Den gamle veien til Kierlighed – stories (1961)
Perlefiskeren – novel (1963)
Mannen fra utskjæret – novel (1965) (about King Sverre Sigurdsson)
Fredløse menn – novel (1967) (about King Sverre Sigurdsson)
Hersker og trell – novel (1969) (about King Sverre Sigurdsson)
Kristina av Tunsberg – play (1971)
Oppstandelsen – novel (1971)
Ansikter i sagaens halvlys – (1971) (illustrated by Karl Erik Harr)
Farvel til en kvinne – novel (1972) (about the queen buried at Oseberg)
Hilsen fra Rafnaberg – collection of articles (1973)
Folket ved Svansjøen – prose collection (1973)
Kappløpet – novel (1974) (about Roald Amundsen)
Sjøhelten – novel (1975) (about Peter Wessel Tordenskiold)
De lange mil til paradiset – novel (1977)
Sønn av jord og himmel – novel (1978) (about Hans Egede)
Skuddet – criminal novel (1979) (about Claus Jæger)
Gjester fra det ukjente – novel (1980)
Biter av et bilde – drawings (1981)
Mørke smil – satire (1981)
Sannferdig beretning om mitt liv som løgner – autobiography (1982)
Veien videre. Ny sannferdig beretning om mitt liv som løgner – autobiography (1983)
Skoggangsmann – (1984) (about Rottenikken)
Budbringeren fra Tunsberg – teen novel (1985)
Flyktningen fra Stiklestad – teen novel (1986)
Vandringen – novel (1986) (about Fridtjof Nansen)
Det finnes en kvinne i Nevada for hvem jeg ha løyet – collection of articles (1995)

Prizes

Norwegian Culture and Religious Department prize for young peoples literature for Cleng Peerson og Nils med luggen - 1948
The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for Mennesker ved en grense - 1954
Språklig samlings litteraturpris - 1966^[5]
Gyldendal's Endowment - 1967^[6]
Sarpsborgprisen - 1967
Dobloug Prize - 1970^[7]
Sproingprisen for Kristina av Tunsberg - 1991 ^[8]
Norwegian Culture and Religious Department prize for young peoples literature for Kristina av Tunsberg - 1991

References

^ Øystein Rottem. "Kåre Holt". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
^ Sverre Sigurdsson (old Norse Sverrir Sigurðarson) (c. 1145/1151 – 9 March 1202) was king of Norway from 1184 to 1202.
^ Erik Bjerck Hagen. "Kåre Holt". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
^ "Ada Madssen". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
^ "Språklig samlings litteraturpris". barum.folkebibl. Archived from the original on 2007-10-24. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
^ Vidar Iversen. "Gyldendalprisen". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
^ Vidar Iversen. "Doblougprisen". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
^ Øyvind Holen. "Sproingprisen". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved April 1, 2018.