Hanne Bramness
Author photo by Kirsti Indreeide, courtesy of J W Cappelens Forlag A S, Oslo.
Shearsman Titles
Salt on the eye – Selected Poems
About the author
Hanne Bramness is a Norwegian poet, editor, translator, and novelist. Born in 1959, she published her first Norwegian collection Korrespondanse in 1983 and has followed this with seven other collections, two of them – Kysset and Trollmåne – for children. Her other collections are I sin tid (1986), Nattens kontinent (1992), Revolusjonselegier (1996), Regnet i Buenos Aires (2002) and Salt på øyet (2006). She won the Norwegian Poetry Club Prize in 1996 and the prestigious Dobloug Prize from the Swedish Academy in 2006.
Her many translations include works by Mina Loy, Kamala Das, Denise Levertov and William Blake.