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Eldrid Lunden

Side by side

Longing is silence

Longing is silence. The snowdrift over the plain is so fine that it
is hardly there. I think of face upon face
through the drifting snow. Longing. Silence

Longing is silence

Lengsel er stillheit. Snødrevet over sletta er så fint at det
nesten ikkje er der. Eg tenker på ansikt etter ansikt
gjennom snødrevet. Lengsel. Stille

Eldrid Lunden

(Norway, 1940)

The poetic work of Eldrid Lunden is some of the most important, not only in Norway, but also in a Nordic context. Her status as writer has been strengthened by her position as director of Creative Studies at Bø in Telemark, Norway’s first academic writing academy, established on her initiative in the 1980s. Her influence on the younger generation of writers is enormous, not only as a poet, but ...

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Longing is silence

Longing is silence. The snowdrift over the plain is so fine that it
is hardly there. I think of face upon face
through the drifting snow. Longing. Silence

Longing is silence

Longing is silence. The snowdrift over the plain is so fine that it
is hardly there. I think of face upon face
through the drifting snow. Longing. Silence