Before I Burn (Heivoll) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—March 13, 1978
• Where—Finsland, Norway
• Education—Telemark College; University of Bergen;
   University of Oslo
• Awards—Brage Prize; Tiden-prisen Prize
• Currently—lives in


Gaute Heivoll studied creative writing at Telemark College 2001/02, law at the University of Oslo and psychology at the University of Bergen. He has also worked as a teacher.

Heivoll has written poems, short stories and essays for newspapers and literary magazines and has been included in many anthologies. He has also conducted courses in creative writing in Norway and France and has worked as a literary critic in Norwegian newspapers.

He made his literary debut in 2002 with the short-story collection Liten dansende gutt. He recently published another story collection, Gordeau and other short-stories.

Books include Omar's Last Days (2003), Song of Youth (2005), Love poems at the river bottom (2006), and Before I Burn (2010), for which Heivoll received the Brage Prize.

Heivoll was also the recipient of the 2003 Tiden-prisen Prize. In 2006 he was the Norwegian representative to the Literary Festival Project Scritture Giovanni, and his short-story "Dr. Gordeau" was translated into English, German and italian. (From the publisher.)