Paal-Helge Haugen

Paal-Helge Haugen’s Anne: A Novel, translated by Julia Johanne Tolo, was a winner of the Annual Loose Translations Award, co-sponsored by Hanging Loose and Queens College-CUNY. Born in Setesdal, Norway in 1945, Haugen has published over 30 books (poetry, fiction, children’s books, plays, essays) and books or selections of his work are translated to some 20 languages. He has received all the major Norwegian literary prizes, in addition to the Dobloug Prize, awarded by the Swedish Academy, The Richard Wilbur Prize (USA) and the Edvard Prize for the libretto to Kjell Habbestad’s opera The Maid Of Norway. Haugen has collaborated extensively with visual artists in Norway and Germany, and has written the libretti for six operas and other large-scale works by Norwegian composers, including Arne Nordheim and Cecilie Ore. In 2009 King Harald V made him Knight First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, in recognition of his services to Norwegian art and letters. His titles in English include Stone Fences (University of Missouri Press, 1986), Wintering with the Light (Sun and Moon Press, 1997), and Meditations on George de la Tour (Bookthug, 2013).Julia Johanne Tolo is a poet and translator from Oslo, Norway. She is the author of the chapbooks August, and the snow has just melted, from Bottlecap Press, and Holes of Silver from Ghost City Press.