Anne Bøe

Anne Bøe (born 9 July 1956) is a Norwegian poet. She was born in Ålesund,[1] and grew up partly in Tanzania.[2] She graduated from the "writers' seminar" in in 1982, where she had studied with Eldrid Lunden.[3] She made her literary début in 1984 with the poetry collection Silkestein, for which she was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris.[1] Among her later poetry collections are Ildrose from 1989, Sinobersol snø from 1993,[2] and Minimum from 2009.[1] Her collection Frostdokumenter from 2012 was described as giving language to people whose voices we seldom hear.[4]

Typical for Bøe's poetry is her use of rhetorical contrasts, such as oxymoron, paradoxes and antitheses.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Anne Bøe". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Bøe, Anne" (in Norwegian). Norsk Rikskringkasting. 2003. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  3. 1 2 Rottem, Øystein (1998). "Anne Bøe utsagn om tro og tvil". Norges Litteraturhistorie. Etterkrigslitteraturen (in Norwegian). 3. Oslo: Cappelen. pp. 551–556. ISBN 82-02-16426-5.
  4. "Anne Bøe" (in Norwegian). Norsk Litteraturfestival. 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2014.

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