JAN ERIK VOLD – The Renowned Norwegian Word Architect and Performer

Raluca-Daniela DUINEA

Authors

Raluca-Daniela DUINEA Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. raluca.radut@ubbcluj.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4275-9344

Abstract

Jan Erik VOLD (b. 1939) is a prominent literary and public figure of the Norwegian literary and cultural space of the 1960s. And he is “still at work. […] Because if I didn’t, there would be one voice missing”, as the poet himself stated in the introduction of the first Norwegian-Romanian bilingual anthology of poetry entitled Briskeby blues, published at Casa Cărții de Știință Publishing House, in 2023, with the financial support of Norwegian Literature Abroad (NORLA).

Author Biography

Raluca-Daniela DUINEA, Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. raluca.radut@ubbcluj.ro

Senior Lecturer, PhD of Norwegian at the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She published a series of articles on Norwegian contemporary poetry and the book entitled The Poetry of Jan Erik Vold and the Norwegian Lyric Modernism in the 1960s, in 2018 at Casa Cărții de Știință Publishing House, in the Nordica Collection. In 2023 she also published the translation of the Norwegian novel Er hun din? (Is She Yours?) by Nils-Øivind Haagensen in Romanian, together with the first Norwegian-Romanian bilingual anthology of poetry, Briskeby blues. Email: raluca.radut@ubbcluj.ro.

References

Personal Interview with Jan Erik Vold, the 15th of February, 2015. In The Poetry of Jan Erik Vold and the Norwegian Lyric Modernism in the 1960s. Răduț Raluca-Daniela. 2018. Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărții de Știință.