Olav H. Hauge

WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:

From The Dream We Carry, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2008–2009
Don’t Come to Me with the Entire Truth, an ipoem, in Winter 2011
Years of Experience with Bows and Arrows, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2010–2011

Olav H. Hauge (1908–1994) was born in Ulvik, Norway, and attended an agricultural school before spending four years gardening on an experimental farm. Rural life and nature would become the foundations of his poetry, while his extensive interest in literature—he taught himself French and English—is everywhere in evidence in his work. Admitted several times to psychiatric hospitals, Hauge made a late debut, at age thirty-eight. New collections appeared every five years, and he produced eight in all. Upon Hauge’s death, his extensive diary was discovered and published in its entirety in five volumes.