Carl Frode Tiller is a Norwegian author, historian and musician. His works are in Nynorsk

Nynorsk

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 (lit. "New Norwegian"), one of the two official Norwegian

Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...

 standard language

Standard language

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Tiller made his literary debut in 2001 with the novel Skråninga (The Slope), which was recognized as the best Norwegian literary debut of the year with the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris

Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris

Tarjei Vesaas's debutantpris is a prize awarded annually for the best first literary work in Norwegian. It is awarded by the Norwegian Authors' Union, and the organisation's 9-member Literary Caucus constitutes the jury for the prize...

 and nominated for the Brage Prize

Brage Prize

The Brage Prize is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation...

. In November 2007 Tiller was awarded the Brage Prize

Brage Prize

The Brage Prize is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation...

 for his novel :no:Innsirkling (Encirclement). In the fall of 2007 :no:Innsirkling received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and was nominated for the premiere Scandinavian literature prize, the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. It also won him the European Union Literary Award in 2009.

Tiller is also a musician in the band Kong Ler.

Awards

• Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris
  Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris
  Tarjei Vesaas's debutantpris is a prize awarded annually for the best first literary work in Norwegian. It is awarded by the Norwegian Authors' Union, and the organisation's 9-member Literary Caucus constitutes the jury for the prize...
  
   2001, for Skråninga
• Aschehoug's Debutant Endowment 2001, for Skråninga
• NRK P2 Listener's Prize 2001, for Skråninga
• Sunnmøre Prize 2001, for Skråninga
• :no:Bjørnsonstipendet 2004, for Bipersonar
• Brage Prize
  Brage Prize
  The Brage Prize is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation...
  
   2007, for Innsirkling
• Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment
  Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment
  Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment is an annually awarded literary prize from the publishing house Aschehoug. The prize is a recognition of superior literary work. The publisher's editorial management makes the award based on their collective judgement of merit. Applications are not accepted.The...
  
  2007
• Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature 2007, for Innsirkling
• Sultprisen 2008

External links

• Carl Frode Tiller at Aschehoug Agency
• Norwegian language pages Official homepage
• Norwegian language pages Carl Frode Tiller in NRK Forfatter
• Norwegian language pages Carl Frode Tiller in the Dagbladet newspaper
• Norwegian language pages Carl Frode Tiller in the newspaper Aftenposten
• Norwegian language pages Authors at the Aschehougs publishers website