Jan Erik Vold

Jan Erik Vold is a popular essayist, translator, public debater and recording artist. His poems and newspaper articles have initiated numerous discussions on literature and politics, and he was one of the founders of ”The Poetry Year 2000”. In September 2000 he received an honorary doctorate from The University of Oslo. In the 1960’s he studied language and literature at the universities of Oslo, Uppsala and Santa Barbara, California. His first book of poetry, Between Mirror and Mirror, was published in 1965, and since then he has had an extensive production.

Jan Erik Vold was born in 1939. He is currently living in Stockholm.