Nils-Øivind Haagensen
Nils-Øivind Haagensen (1971–) has worked as a journalist and has a degree in Comparative Literature. He is now Publishing Director of Flamme forlag. He made his literary début in 1998 with the poetry collection Hands and Memory (Hender og hukommelse), and has since written eight poetry collections, three novels and a Travel Book. In 2004 he was awarded the SULT award for his writing, and in 2013 he was nominated to the Nordic Council Literature Prize for his poetry collection Good morning and Good night (God morgen og god natt).