Search results
Tarjei Vesaas (20 August 1897 – 15 March 1970) was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Vesaas is widely considered to be one of Norway's greatest writers of the twentieth century and perhaps its most important since World War II .
The Ice Palace ( Nynorsk: Is-slottet) is a novel by the Norwegian author Tarjei Vesaas, first published in 1963. An English translation was published by Peter Owen Publishers, London. It and was scheduled for reissue with them in Christmas of 2017 was part of their Cased Classics series. [citation needed] Vesaas received The Nordic Council's ...
- Tarjei Vesaas
- 1963
Aug 12, 2016 · The Birds is a Norwegian novel by Tarjei Vesaas, a Nobel contender, about a lonely man who struggles to communicate and be heard. The essay praises the novel's beauty and sadness, and its re-release by Archipelago Books amid the translation crisis.
Tarjei Vesaas (born Aug. 20, 1897, Vinje, Nor.—died March 15, 1970, Vinje) was a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer whose symbolic and allegorical narratives won him much recognition in Norway and other European countries. A writer since 1923, Vesaas first experienced significant success with his two novels about life on a Norwegian ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Written in Nynorsk, his work is characterized by simple, terse, and symbolic prose. His stories often cover simple rural people that undergo a severe psychological drama and who according to critics are described with immense psychological insight.
- (20.2K)
- March 15, 1970
- August 20, 1897
Apr 10, 2019 · First published in 1963 and translated into English in 1966, The Ice Palace was written by Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970), a poet and novelist widely regarded as one of Norway’s greatest writers of the 20th century. (According to the author biography in my edition, he wrote more than 25 novels and was nominated for the Nobel Prize 30 times!)
People also ask
Who is Tarjei Vesaas?
How many pages is Tarjei Vesaas?
What language did Tarjei Vesaas speak?
When did Tarjei Vesaas start writing?
Nov 23, 2013 · Tarjei Vesaas has written an absolute masterpiece here. Read it - Examine the ice palace on the cover of the book and the picture of a girl. Use your imagination and think of imagery and symbolism, snow, ice, water, new seasons, mental trauma, the mirror that reveals all, two eleven year old girls, an outsider and the other the leader of a group at school.
