Britt Karin Larsen

Britt Karin Larsen (born 16 April 1945) is a Norwegian poet, author and government scholar. Larsen debuted as a poet in 1978 with 5 mg blues og andre dikt, and has published a great deal of poetry collections and novels since then. She is best known for her novel-trilogy about Norwegian and Swedish Travellers, De som ser etter tegn (1997), De usynliges by (1998) and Sangen om løpende hester (1999). The trilogy has been called a literary monument for Romany people in Norway. Larsent was given the Norsk PEN's highest freedom prize, the Ossietzky-prisen, in 2000.

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