Rolf Jacobsen (poet)
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Rolf Jacobsen (8 March 1907 – 20 February 1994)[citation needed] was a Norwegian writer.
Jacobsen could be said to be the first modernist writer in Norway. Jacobsen's career as a writer spanned more than fifty years. He is one of Scandinavia’s most distinguished poets, who launched poetic modernism in Norway with his first book, Jord og jern in 1933. Jacobsen's work has been translated into over twenty languages. The central theme in his work is the balance between nature and technology – he was called "the Green Poet" in Norwegian literature.[1]
Youth
Rolf Jacobsen was born in Oslo (then called Kristiania), as the son of Martin Julius Jacobsen (1865–1944), who had completed both medical and dental school, and Marie (Nielsen) Jacobsen (1880–1953) a nurse. At the age of six he moved with his family to Åsnes, where Martin Jacobsen had obtained a post as a school dentist. Rolf was educated by his mother, who had completed one year of teacher's training. In 1920 he moved to Oslo and entered a private school. During these years his uncle, who was a railway engineer, looked after him. Jacobson continued his studies at the University of Oslo for five years without graduating. In 1927 he served in the Norwegian army for six weeks.[2]
From 1937 to 1939 he was a board member of Hedmark
Early career
Jacobsen's Jord og jern, written in
In 1934 Jacobsen returned to Åsnes to take care of his father. He had joined a
German Occupation years
During the
After his internment, Jacobsen settled at
Jacobsen often expressed ironically his doubts about
Personal life
Jacobsen was engaged for a time to Elisabeth Wiborg, daughter of author Julli Wiborg.[5] In 1940 Jacobsen married Petra Tendø (1912–1983); they had two sons. While his parents' marriage did not succeed, Jacobsen's own marriage was harmonious. After his wife's death, in his last book, Nattåpent (1985), Jacobsen published tender and mournful poems about their life together: "Whoever loves for years / hasn't lived in vain." He died in 1994 and was buried at Hamar kirkegård in Hamar.[citation needed]
Bibliography
- Jord og jern ('Earth and Iron') – poetry (1933)
- Vrimmel ('Swarm') – poetry (1935)
- Fjerntog (Express Train) – poetry (1951)
- Hemmelig liv ('Secret Life') – poetry (1954)
- Sommeren i gresset ('Summer in the Grass') – poetry (1956)
- Brev til lyset ('Letter to the Light') – poetry (1960)
- Stillheten efterpå ('The Silence Afterwards') – poetry (1965)
- Headlines – poetry (1969)
- Pass for dørene - dørene lukkes ('Mind the Doors - The Doors are Closing') – poetry (1972)
- Pusteøvelse ('Breathing exercise') – poetry (1975)
- Den ensomme veranda ('The Lonely Veranda') – poetry (1977)
- Tenk på noe annet ('Think About Something Else') – poetry (1979)
- Liv laga – poetry (1982)
- Nattåpent ('Night Watch') – poetry (1985)
- Alle mine dikt ('All My Poems') – poetry (1990)
- En liten kvast med tusenfryd og fire rare løk: ukjente dikt og tekster 1925-1993 – poetry (1996)
- Samlede dikt ('Collected Poems') – collected works (1999)
- Breathing Exercise: Poems of Rolf Jacobsen (White Pine Press, 1985) (translated by Olav Grinde, Edited by Dennis Maloney)
- The Roads Have Come to an End Now (Copper Canyon Press, 2001) (translated by Robert Bly, Roger Greenwald and Robert Hedin)
- North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen (University of Chicago Press, 2002) (translated and edited by Roger Greenwald)
Awards
In the course of his long career, Jacobsen received many honors, among them membership in the
- Schæffers legat, 1934
- Henrichsens legat, 1936
- Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (Kritikerprisen), 1960 for Brev til lyset
- Riksmål Society Literature Prize (Riksmålsforbundets litteraturpris), 1965
- Dobloug Prize (Doblougprisen), 1968
- Sarpsborgprisen, 1969
- Glåmdalens kulturpris, 1969
- Ønskediktprisen (NRK), 1970
- Hedmarksprisen, 1977
- Aschehoug Prize (Aschehougprisen), 1986
- Hamarprisen, 1986
- Svenska Akademiens nordiske pris, 1989
- Æresmedlem av Hamar Natur og ungdom, 1989
- Æresmedlem av Hedmark Forfatterlag, 1989
- Hedmark fylkeskommunes kulturpris, 1990
- Æresmedlem av Naturvernforbundet Hedmark, 1992
References
- ^ Rolf Jacobsen (NRK)
- ^ Rolf Jacobsen (Hedmarkslitteraturer) Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Solbakken, Evald O. (1951). Det røde fylke. Trekk av den politiske arbeiderbevegelse i Hedmark gjennom 100 år (in Norwegian). Hamar: Hedmark Labour Party. p. 105.
- ^ Rolf Jacobsen (Dagbladet) Archived 2012-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Hanne Lillebo. "Rolf Jacobsen". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
- ^ Rolf Jacobsen (Store norske leksikon)
- ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Rolf Jacobsen". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010.
Other sources
- Aadland, Erling Forundring, Trofasthet: Poetisk tenkning i Rolf Jacobsens lyrikk (Gyldendal norsk forlag. 1996)
- Lillebo, Hanne Ord ma en omvei: En biografi om Rolf Jacobsen (Aschehoug. 1998)
- Røsbak, Ove Rolf Jacobsen: En dikter og hans skygge (Gyldendal - 1998)