Carl Frode Tiller

Carl Frode Tiller
Carl Frode Tiller
	Carl Frode at Frankfurt Book Fair, 2019
Born	4 January 1970; Namsos, Norway
Occupation	Author, novelist
Nationality	Norwegian
Period	2001–present
Genre	Fiction

Carl Frode Tiller (born 4 January 1970 in Namsos) is a Norwegian author, historian and musician. His works are in Nynorsk (lit. "New Norwegian"), one of the two official Norwegian standard languages.

Tiller made his literary debut in 2001 with the novel Skråninga (The Slope), which was recognized as the best Norwegian literary debut of the year with the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris and nominated for the Brage Prize. In November 2007 Tiller was awarded the Brage Prize for his novel no:Innsirkling (Encirclement). In the fall of 2007 no:Innsirkling received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and was nominated for the premiere Scandinavian literature prize, the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. It also won him the European Union Literary Award in 2009.

Tiller is also a musician in the band Kong Ler.

His daughter is a member of UHSN. Her name is Oline.

Bibliography

2001: Skråninga (The Slope) – novel
2003: Bipersonar (Minor Characters) – novel
2007: no:Innsirkling (Encirclement) – novel
2007: Folkehelsa (Public Health) – play (2007) [1]
2010: Innsikling II (Encirclement II) – novel

Awards

Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris 2001, for Skråninga
Aschehoug's Debutant Endowment 2001, for Skråninga
NRK P2 Listener's Prize 2001, for Skråninga
Sunnmøre Prize 2001, for Skråninga
no:Bjørnsonstipendet 2004, for Bipersonar
Brage Prize 2007, for Innsirkling
Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment 2007
Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature 2007, for Innsirkling
Sultprisen 2008

gollark: ?remind 5y check prediction ("Vague trend guess for the future: prosperity will generally tend upwards, unless it goes down really sharply due to some sudden bad event.") against reality

gollark: Vague trend guess for the future: prosperity will generally tend upwards, unless it goes down really sharply due to some sudden bad event.

gollark: I can at least guess at vague trends, but that's all.

gollark: The future is hard to accurately predict.

gollark: <@!543131534685765673> I have no idea.

References

This play was composed as part of the project “Trondheim Open” with the Trøndelag Teater spring 2007.

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[1] This play was composed as part of the project “Trondheim Open” with the Trøndelag Teater spring 2007.