Weight of Light

Hanne Bramness (1959) is one of the leading Norwegian poets of her generation. Her first book Korrespondanse (Correspondance) appeared in 1983 and she has since published nine other volumes, the last of which is Fra hapets historie (From the history of hope) in 2017. She has also written five volumes of poetry and a novel, Lynettes reise (Lynette's journey), for young readers. Her translations of poetry into Norwegian include among others William Blake, Mina Loy, Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, Kamala Das, Selima Hill and Frances Presley. She has received five awards for her poems, among them The Dobloug Prize from the Swedish Academy in 2006. Together with her husband, the writer Lars Amund Vaage, she runs the poetry press Nordsjoforlaget (North Sea Publishers). She lives in Berlin and on the west coast of Norway, in Sunde south of Bergen, where she has participated in establishing Bergslagen, Sunde kyst- og litteratursenter, a national centre for material and immaterial coastal culture.