Awards & Winners

Jens Bjørneboe

Date of Birth 09-October-1920
Place of Birth Kristiansand
(Norway, Vest-Agder)
Nationality Norway
Also know as Jens Bjorneboe, Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe
Profession Novelist, Teacher, Author
Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe was a Norwegian writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. He was also a painter and a waldorf school teacher. Bjørneboe was a harsh and eloquent critic of Norwegian society and Western civilization on the whole. He led a turbulent life and his uncompromising opinions cost him both an obscenity conviction as well as long periods of heavy drinking and bouts of depression, which in the end led to his suicide. Jens Bjørneboe's first published work was Poems in 1951. He is widely considered to be one of Norway's most important post-war authors. Bjørneboe identified himself, among other self-definitions, as an anarcho-nihilist. During the Norwegian language struggle, Bjørneboe was a notable proponent of the Riksmål language, together with his equally famous cousin André Bjerke.

Awards by Jens Bjørneboe

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jens Bjørneboe.

1975


Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize The sharks
Norway

1968


Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize Moment of freedom
Norway