Introduction
Kåre Holt (10 October 1916, Våle – 15 March 1997, Holmestrand) was a Norwegian author.
His initial work was published in 1939, a children’s book named Tore Kramkar. As his career progressed, Holt wrote many children’s books, plays, radio plays, biographies, and historical novels. The trilogy Kongen about King Sverre Sigurdsson is considered his principal work. He is also remembered for his mythologically-based novels about icons of Norwegian history, among others Kappløpet about Roald Amundsen which created a sensation when it was published in 1974.
Holt won The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature 1954, for Mennesker ved en grense. Holt was nominated three times for The Nordic Council's Literature Prize (Nordisk Råds litteraturpris): in 1966 for the novel Kongen—Mannen fra utskjæret, in 1970 for the novel Kongen—Hersker og trell and in 1979 for the novel Sønn av jord og himmel.
Prizes
- Norwegian Culture and Religious Department prize for young peoples literature. 1948, for Cleng Peerson og Nils med luggen
- The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature 1954, for Mennesker ved en grense
- Språklig samlings litteraturpris 1966
- Gyldendal's Endowment 1967
- Sarpsborgprisen 1967
- Dobloug Prize 1970
- Sproingprisen 1991, for Kristina av Tunsberg
- Norwegian Culture and Religious Department prize for young peoples literature. 1991, for Kristina av Tunsberg