Odd Børretzen

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Odd Lunde Børretzen (21 November 1926 – 3 November 2012)^[1] was a Norwegian author, illustrator, translator, and one of the most significant text writers, folk singers and artists in Norway.^[2][3]

Biography

Børretzen was born in Fister in the Hjelmeland municipality as the son of the preacher Jacob Børretzen.^[4] When Odd was three years old, his family moved to Grorud in Oslo; his childhood is related in the self-biographic Min barndoms verden (My Childhood World, 1997; filmed as Da jeg traff Jesus … med sprettert, 2000). Later in life, between 1946 and 1952, he worked as a telegrapher among other things.

He debuted as an author in 1959 with his self-illustrated children's book Byen som laget brannbil (The city that made a firetruck). He released his first

He is well known for his many performances with Julius Hougen on radio and television as Braathen, a pensioner. They received a strong reaction to the so-called pensioner sketches, and therefore Børretzen decided to stop performing them due to bad conscience. He also was the narrator for the animation series Kalles klatretre (Kalle's Climbing Tree) on NRK.^[5]

Børretzen lived in Holmestrand. He lived with Eva Bødtker-Næss, a sculptor, for over thirty years.^[6]

Awards

Odd Børretzen won the Herman Wildenvey Poetry Award in 2005.^[7] He was awarded the Leonard Statuette in 2002.^[8]

References

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