Stein Mehren

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Stein Mehren (born 16 May 1935) is a Norwegian poet, author, essayist and playwright. He made his literary debut as lyricist with Gjennom stillheten en natt (1960).^[1] He has written more than fifty books, mainly poetry.

Awards

Mehren received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1963 for Mot en verden av lys, and was awarded the Swedish Academy’s Dobloug Prize in 1971. He received Aschehougprisen in 1973, the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1975, the Gyldendalprisen in 2004, and the Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl in 1987.

In 1979 he was awarded the Fritt Ord Award.^[2]

References

↑ (Norwegian) "Stein Mehren" – Dagbladet (Retrieved on February 21, 2008)
↑ Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Fritt Ords pris". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 22 May 2010.

Awards
Preceded by Karen-Christine Friele	Recipient of the Fritt Ord Award 1979	Succeeded by Andrey Sakharov
Preceded by Marta Schumann and Tormod Haugen	Recipient of the Gyldendal's Endowment 1981 (shared with Gidske Anderson)	Succeeded by Ola Bauer and Ketil Gjessing

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 29571239 LCCN: n80017556 ISNI: 0000 0001 2125 9378 GND: 12831480X BNF: cb12149309j

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Name	Mehren, Stein
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Short description	Norwegian writer
Date of birth	16 May 1935
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