{"id":2484,"date":"2016-01-21T08:18:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T08:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=2484"},"modified":"2016-02-01T10:42:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T10:42:03","slug":"meet-the-author","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/meet-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Author: Gaute Heivoll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Meet the Author: Gaute Heivoll in the Nordic House February\u00a02 at 7:30pm, free entrance.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sigur\u00f0ur \u00d3lafsson, Manager for the Nordic Council Literature Prizes will be the moderator of the evening and the program will take place in scandinavian languages.<\/p>\n<p>All events from the <em>Meet the Author<\/em> series are brought to you via Nordic House\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/14889744\">Livestrem<\/a>:<br \/>\n<iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/14889744\/events\/4739539\/player?width=560&amp;height=315&amp;autoPlay=true&amp;mute=false\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gaute Heivoll <\/strong>(1978) \u00a0has written poems, short stories and essays for newspapers and literary magazines. He has also conducted courses in creative writing in Norway and France and has worked as a literary critic in Norwegian newspapers. He made his literary debut in 2002 with the poetry collection <em>Liten dansende gutt.<\/em> His novels include <em>Omars siste dager [Omar&#8217;s Last Days] <\/em>(2003) and <em>Ungdomssangen [Song of Youth] <\/em>(2005). His most recent book is the short-story collection Doktor Gordeau.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010 Heivoll released the book <em>F\u00f8r jeg brenner ned (Before I burn) were <\/em>suspense meets memoir, a semi-autobiographical novel that&#8217;s poetic, gripping and at times even profound.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1978 an arsonist terrorized a small village in southern Norway. Ten fires over the course of a month. Just after that \u2014 in the same week that the last house was torched \u2014 a baby boy was christened in a local church. He turns out to be our author. Thirty years later, he has come home to make sense of what happened the summer he was born.Meet the Author<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nordic House series 2015-16<br \/>\n<\/strong>September 1st \u2013 Jens Andersen (DK)<br \/>\nOctober 6th \u2013 Einar M\u00e1r Gu\u00f0mundsson<br \/>\nNovember 3rd \u2013 Camilla Plum (DK)<br \/>\nDecember 1st \u2013 Rawdna Carita Eira (NO\/samisk)<br \/>\nJanuary 12th \u2013 Kristina Sandberg (SE)<br \/>\nFebruary 2nd \u2013 Gaute Heivoll (NO)<br \/>\nMarch 1st \u2013 \u00c5sne Seierstad (NO)<br \/>\nApril 5th \u2013 Susanna Alakoski (SE\/FI)<br \/>\nMay 3rd \u2013 Mari Jungstedt &amp; Ruben Eliassen (SE\/NO)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/961292177288633\/\">Heivoll Facebook event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Author: Gaute Heivoll in the Nordic House February\u00a02 at 7:30pm, free entrance. Sigur\u00f0ur \u00d3lafsson, Manager for the Nordic Council Literature Prizes will be the moderator of the evening and the program will take place in scandinavian languages. All events from the Meet the Author series are brought to you via Nordic House\u00a0Livestrem: Gaute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2485,"template":"","event-categories":[7,60,8],"class_list":["post-2484","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-lecture","event-categories-all-events","event-categories-literature","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}