Between 1979 and 1988 Knudsen played in and produced the bandsThe Aller Værste! (TAV!), Løver & Tigre (no) (Lions and Tigers) and The Beste (no). He received a Spellemannpris in 1980 for the album Materialtretthet (Metal Fatigue) with TAV![2]
His first solo album, La det brenne (Let It Burn), was released in 2008. For the lyrics of his second album, Vi (We) from 2017, he won his second Spellemannpris in 2017.[3]Vi was the first album of a trilogy in cooperation with Lasse Marhaug, followed by Gud (God) in 2018 and Lit (Trust) in August 2019.
Writingedit
He made his debut as author with the novel Strålende nederlag (Brilliant Defeat) in 1989. His 25th book Aarons maskin from 2011 received Riksmål Society's Price for Children and Youth Literature (no),[1] was nominated for the Norwegian Critics' Association Prize for Children's Literature (no)[6] and the Brage Prize.[7] He has written TV drama: The Third Sign (NRK 2002), one episode in Hvaler (NRK ), 12 episodes for Children's Television "Fritt Fram" and more than 160 episodes for the Norwegian television soap opera Hotel Cæsar.[8]
He has also worked as a piccolo, caretaker, distribution manager, consultant for publishing and film, carpenter, stevedore, teacher, driver, tram driver in Oslo Sporveier, clerk, documentation writer in Norsk Data, copywriter in JBR advertising agency, for Filadelfia advertising agency, and as multimedia and internet developer in HEP, BeatMap and never.no AS. He started the digital communications agency never.no AS in the autumn of 1999, where he worked as a creative leader until the end of 2001. He became a full-time writer and playwright again from 2002.
About Sverre Knudsen's books on Aschehoug Publishing House
Sverre Knudsen's books on Kagge Forlag
Referencesedit
^ abMichaelsen, Stig (ed.). "Barne- og ungdomsbokprisen". Riksmålsforbundet. Riksmålsforbundet. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
^ abBergan, Jon Vidar (11 June 2019). "Spellemannprisen". Store norske leksikon. Foreningen Store norske leksikon (Great Norwegian Encyclopedia Association). Retrieved 4 July 2019.
^ ab"Dette er vinnerne av Spellemann 2017". Spellemannprisen. Spellemann AS. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
^"litteraturpris". Landslaget for språklig samling. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
^Knudsen, Sverre. Sverre Knudsen, 1979. Oslo: Aschehoug, 2015. pp. 330–332. ISBN 978-82-03-29544-7.
^"Nominasjoner til litteraturkritikerprisene". Kritikerlaget (Norwegian Critics’ Association). Kritikerlaget. 6 February 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
^Egeland, Tom (1 November 2011). "Her er nominasjonene til Brageprisen". Den norske Forfatterforening (Norwegian Authors' Union). Retrieved 4 July 2019.
^"Hotel Cæsar (1998– ) Full Cast & Crew". IMDB. Amazon.com. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
^"Sverre Knudsen". Aschehoug. H. Aschehoug & Co. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
^"Sverre Knudsen". Manusbanken. Writers’ Guild of Norway. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
^"1979". Norsk Forfattersentrum (The Norwegian Writer's Center). Norsk Forfattersentrum (The Norwegian Writer's Center). Retrieved 10 July 2019.