Gunnar Wærness

Gunnar Wærness has published several poetry collections. For his debut King's Splint he received the debut writer award Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris in 1999. Thank You came in 2002. In 2004 Gunnar Wærness was selected among Norway's ten best writers under 35 years of age by The Norwegian Festival of Literature and the weekly newspaper Morgenbladet. In 2006 his poem Dear Prayer from the poetry collection Each Other's, published the same year, selected as the best poem of the year by the radio program Ordfront by Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's channel NRK P2. His poetry collection Let there be world was published in 2007 and in 2010 he and Pedro Carmona-Alvarez edited the anthology Verden finnes ikke på kartet* (The world is not on the map) with poems and poets from all over the world.

Sources:

Wikipedia. 04.09.2010: http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_W%C3%A6rness

Forlaget Oktober. 04.09.2010: http://www.oktober.no/nor/forfattere/norske/waerness_gunnar

*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.

The Academy of Creative Writing in Hordaland, 1994-1995

The Creative Writing Studies at Telemark University College, 1993-1994

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