Paal-Helge Haugen

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paal-Helge Haugen (born 1945 in Valle) is a Norwegian lyricist, novelist, dramatist and children's writer. He made his literary debut with Blad frå ein austleg hage in 1965, a translation of Japanese haiku. He received the Dobloug Prize in 1987, and was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1990. He received the Brage Prize in 1994 for Sone 0. Haugen was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1991 for Meditasjonar over Georges de la Tour. In January 2009 King Harald V of Norway made Haugen a Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, awarding him for his work for Norwegian literature and culture.