What needs to happen when two who love each other, no longer can talk, live or sleep together? A reading with Geir Gulliksen.
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Welcome to a reading and a conversation with the Norwegian author Geir Gulliksen about his book The Story of a Marriage.
Geir Gulliksen
(1963) is a writer and publishing editor. He debuted in 1986 and has written poems, essays, plays, novels and children's books.
In 2014 Gulliksen received the Aschehoug Award for his overall authorship.
In 2008 Gulliksen won the Mads Wiel Nygaard Endowment for his literary 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.”
The story of a Marriage
Amodern love story, a tale of a contemporary relationship. It's about She and He and the life they share together. All goes well, until it suddenly doesn’t work anymore, what really happened?
The novel examines whether it is possible to understand love and what it does to us. A man tries to figure out how his marriage could break, when he and his wife loved each other so strongly. He's trying to comprehend what went wrong by investigating all the years they had together as if he were her.
Nominated for the Norwegian Critics‘ Prize for Literature 2015
Nominated for the Norwegian Literary Award: P2 Listeners Novel Prize 2015
Also nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2016
Part of Jury´s motivation: "Geir Gulliksen has as a poet, novelist, essayist and editor left his mark on Norwegian literature for decades. With his latest novels, he has been responsible for a consistent and original exploration of the living conditions in a contemporary Scandinavian social democracy, often with gender roles, family life and sexuality as a focal point. (...) The novel provides a rare and finely tuned portrait of the dynamics of a lasting relationship, of proximity, community and intimacy but also of a distance that is growing in the middle of safety and freedom.”
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Moderation: Thomas Böhm
Date: 23.03.2019
Time: 04.45 pm -05.15 pm
Place: Nordisches Forum, Halle 4, Stand C400