Biography Jan Erik Vold

Jan Erik Vold was born in Oslo in 1939. He studied language and literature at the universities of Oslo, Uppsala and Santa Barbara in the 1960's.

He is a leading Norwegian poet and a well-known translator of European and American literature.

As a literary critic and editor Jan Erik Vold has paved the way for a deeper understanding of modernist literature in Norway. During the past decades he has published many new editions of Scandinavian authors, mainly Norwegian poets.

Vold’s editions, which represent outstanding philological research and editorial work, are and will be of central importance for the study of modern Scandinavian literature.

His work represents an important critical contribution to the renewal of the Norwegian literary canon.

Through his many stimulating essays, and as a public voice, Jan Erik Vold has given new vitality to the Norwegian discourse on literature and culture, and has thus initiated new interest in contemporary literature amongst a broader public.

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