Gulliksen won the endowment for his entire work. In their statement, the jury wrote: “Geir Gulliksen writes in a beautiful and accessible prose, which challenges the outer limits of poetry in a way that has earned him recognition among the most sophisticated literary circles, at the same time as he can be read by anybody.” Gulliksen's latest collection of poetry, A FACE REMINISCENT OF NORWEGIAN POLITICS earned rave reviews on its publication.

Lars Petter Sveen made his debut in 2008 with the short story collection DRIVING FROM FRÆNA. Characterizing Sveen as a an “obvious story telling talent”, the jury stated: “ His stories from the Norwegian countryside keep a high stylistic standard. In his short story collection DRIVING FROM FRÆNA, politics, fairy-tale and horror merge into an inventive unity. Sveen goes close to the society he describes, but at the same time he has the distance needed to make us, the readers, see important aspects of our society with new eyes.”