Gunnar Wærness

Gunnar Wærness (born 1971, Trondheim) is a Norwegian poet. Wærness is one of the editors behind the literary journal Luj. Gunnar Wærness now lives in Skåne, Sweden.

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(Objekt ID 6122)
Object type Person
Born Navember 22, 1971
Functions Author
Nationality Norwegian
Gender Male
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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.

Education

The Academy of Creative Writing in Hordaland, 1994-1995

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

Affiliations (1)
Involved in productions (6)
Title Premiere Role
€urocorridos (brødet & e$elet) December 2, 2016 Performer, Concept/Idea
Vi er motorvei! (brødet & e$elet) September 27, 2013 Concept/Idea, Performer
sovereign (Ning) February 24, 2012 Text, Other
Etudes () September 17, 2010 Author, Other
Henvendelser* (Approaches) (Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting (NCNP)) March 3, 2010 Playwright
The face of the city (The National TheatreThe Norwegian Theatre) August 30, 2005 Text
Artworks (2)
Title Publiseringsdato Role
Flenge Script – Author
€urodike 2015, Literature – Author