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 Bø 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]

Selected works

• Silkestein (1984, poetry)
• Ordenes kildemor (1987, poetry)
• Ildrose (1989, poetry)
• Sinobersol snø (1993, poetry)
• Ingensteds overalt (1994, poetry)
• Krigslogikkene (2001, poetry)
• Sisyfos synger (2003, poetry)

References

1. "Anne Bøe". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
2. "Bøe, Anne" (in Norwegian). Norsk Rikskringkasting. 2003. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
3. 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.

Further reading

• Hagerup, Henning (1992). "Fingerspissdans: om Anne Bøes lyrikk". Vagant (2): 52–54.
• Grip, Johann (1992). "Men hva forstår en cello?: om lyrikken til Anne Bøe". Vagant (2): 57–59.