Gro Dahle is a Norwegian poet

Poet

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 and writer

Writer

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She was born in Oslo

Oslo

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, and is a daughter of Øystein Dahle

Øystein Dahle

Øystein Dahle is a Norwegian businessperson and organizational leader.He was born in Trondheim. He worked in Esso from 1963, and was vice president of Esso Norway from 1985 to 1995...

. She made her literary début in 1987 with Audiens (Audience), a collection of poetry

Poetry

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. Since then Dahle has written over 30 books in different genres, among them a series of picture books for children in collaboration with her husband, Norwegian illustrator Svein Nyhus

Svein Nyhus

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Gro Dahle has received several national awards for her work. In 1999 she was the official festival poet at the Bergen International Festival

Bergen International Festival

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. In 2002 she won the Brage Prize

Brage Prize

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 for literature for Snill (Nice), a picture book for children, and in 2003 the Best Children’s Book Prize from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture for Sinna Mann (Angry Man), a book about a boy witnessing domestic violence

Domestic violence

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Dahle is a stylistically naïve, imaginative and burlesque

Burlesque

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 writer often focusing on psychological

Psychology

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 problems and relations. She lives and works on the island Tjøme

Tjøme

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. Dahle also gives lectures in creative writing

Creative writing

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in Norway and Sweden.