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Christiansen, Rune

The Oktober Prize 1994
Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize 1996
Språklig Samling Prize for Literature 1998
The Dobloug Prize 2003
The Oslo Prize 2007

Rune Christiansen (b 1963) has written six critically acclaimed novels, and several volumes of poetry since he made his literary debut in 1986 with Where the Train Leaves the Sea. In 1996 he was awarded the Halldis Moren Vesaas prize. In its grounds the jury said that Christiansen's body of work holds a unique position because it exposes a new phase in modernity in Norway with its «tough but sensual masculine urbanity, not alienated from, but integrated with the elements, the shiftings in nature, transience and permanence». Christiansen has stated that «literature borrows its authority from wanting». He characterises his books as «transient rooms where oblivion and recognition illuminate and amplify each other as equal and simultaneous events.»