Jan Jakob Tønseth is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 author, poet and translator.

Tønseth debuted as a poet with the poetry collection Kimærer in 1971, when he was only 24 years of age. He achieved broad recognition as a novelist with his trilogy about the ex-communist Hilmar Iversen (Hilmar Iversens ensomhet (1992), Et vennskap (1997) and Resignasjon og portvin (2002)). Tønseth is a member of Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature

Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature

The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature is a Norwegian learned body on matters pertaining to the Dano-Norwegian language. Its primary role is regulating the written standard known as Riksmål ....

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Poetry

• Kimærer – poetry collection (1971)
• I denne tid – poetry collection , (1974)
• Synlige dikt – poetry collection (1977)
• Referanser (fjerne og nære) – poetry collection (1979)
• Lengsel og lede – poetry collection (1987)
• Motgift – poetry collection (1994)
• Fromme vers for enkle sjeler – poetry collection (2008) ISBN 978-82-02-28679-8

Prose

• Drømmer og løgner – prose (1982)
• På krigsfot med virkeligheten – essay collection (1984)
• Antagelser – (1984), together with John David Nielsen (malerier) )
• Hilmar Iversens ensomhet – novel (1992) )
• Et vennskap – novel (1997)
• En rar skrue – biography of Kjell Aukrust
  Kjell Aukrust
  Kjell Aukrust was a Norwegian author, poet and artist. He was the nephew of Olav Aukrust. He is most famous for his memoirs of his childhood in Alvdal in the books Simen, Bonden and Bror Min, and his creation of the fictional Norwegian village of Flåklypa and its cast of idiosyncratic characters...
  
   (2000)
• Resignasjon og portvin – novel (2002)
• Dikteren på terskelen – essays (2005)
• Von Aschenbachs fristelse – short story collection (2006)

Translated poetry

• Arthur Rimbaud
  Arthur Rimbaud
  Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...
  
  : Illuminasjoner
  Illuminations (poems)
  Illuminations is an uncompleted suite of prose poems by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, first published partially in La Vogue, a Paris literary review, in May–June 1886. The texts were reprinted in book form in October 1886 by Les publications de La Vogue under the title Les Illuminations proposed...
  
  (1981), together with Arne Kjell Haugen
• Stéphane Mallarmé
  Stéphane Mallarmé
  Stéphane Mallarmé , whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.-Biography:Stéphane...
  
  : Utvalgte tekster (1983), together with Arne Kjell Haugen
• Guillaume Apollinaire
  Guillaume Apollinaire
  Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
  
  : Alkoholer (1985), together with Arne Kjell Haugen
• Henri Michaux
  Henri Michaux
  Henri Michaux was a highly idiosyncratic Belgian-born poet, writer, and painter who wrote in French. He later took French citizenship. Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his body of work includes poetry, travelogues, and art criticism...
  
  : Mellom sentrum og fravær (1989), together with Arne Kjell Haugen
• Guillaume Apollinaire
  Guillaume Apollinaire
  Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
  
  : Dyreboken eller Orfeus´ følge (originally ‘’Le bestiaire ou le cortège d’Orphée’’) (1998)
• José Hierro
  José Hierro
  José Hierro del Real , sometimes colloquially called Pepe Hierro, was a Spanish poet. He belongs to the so-called postwar generation, within the rootless and existential poetry streams. He wrote for both Espadaña and Garcilaso magazines...
  
  : New York-notater (2004)
• Édouard Glissant
  Édouard Glissant
  Édouard Glissant was a Martinican writer, poet and literary critic. He is widely recognised as one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary.-Life:...
  
  : De vestindiske øyer (2005)
• Roberto Bolaño
  Roberto Bolaño
  Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999 he won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes , and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes...
  
  : De noveltiske hundene (2008), together with Kristina Solum

Prizes and recognition

• Gyldendals legat 1977
• Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature 1990
• P2-lytternes novelpris 1997
• Cappelenprisen 2002
• Dobloug Prize
  Dobloug Prize
  The Dobloug Prize is a literature prize awarded for Swedish and Norwegian fiction. The prize is named after Norwegian businessman and philanthropist Birger Dobloug pursuant to his bequest. The prize sum is . The Dobloug Prize is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy.-Prize winners:...
  
  2007