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Abstract: Meeting the Author Couple Tarjei Vesaas and Halldis Moren Vesaas. The author couple Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970) and Halldis Moren Vesaas (1907-95) held an important position in Norwegian literature and cultural life during several decades of this century. They both came from mountain districts of Eastern Norway, and after their marriage (1934) they settled down on a farm in Tarjei’s home district, Vinje in Telemark, where they lived the rest of their life. They both wrote in ‘nynorsk’ (New Norwegian). Tarjei Vesaas made his debut in 1923, and thereafter published more than 40 books. He is most famous for his novels and short stories, but he also published collections of poems and plays. His finest works include the early Bildungsroman Det store spelet (The Great Game), Huset i mørkret (The House in the Dark) inspired by the German occupation of Norway 1940-45, and from his later years the novels Fuglane (The Birds) and Is-slottet (The Ice Castle). Several of his novels are translated into many foreign languages. Halldis Moren Vesaas wrote essays and memoirs, but she was first and foremost a very popular poet. She published in all 8 collections of poems, her first one in 1929, Harpe og dolk (Harp and Dagger) and her last one (posthumous) in 1995, Lysthus (Bower). She made a breakthrough with two collections in the 1930’s - Strender (Beaches) and Lykkelege hender (Happy Hands). Both in these poems and in her 4 after war collections - Tung tids tale (Hard Time’s Speech), Treet (The Tree), I ein annan skog (In Another Forest), and in the very last one, Lysthus, she is intensely preoccupied with moods of feeling and self-knowledge in different periods of human life. She also published two (autobiographical) books about her and Tarjei’s life together - I Midtbøs bakkar (In the Hills of Midtbø) and Båten om dagen (The Boat during the Day). |
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