Tone Hødnebø

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Tone Hødnebø (born 5 November 1962 in Oslo) is a Norwegian poet, translator and magazine editor. She studied philology and made her literary debut in 1989 with Larm. From 1990 to 1997 she co-edited the magazine Vagant. Her 1994 collection Mørkt kvadrat drew comparisons to Rolf Jacobsen and Sigbjørn Obstfelder. Other poetry books include Pendel (1997), Stormstigen (2002), Nedtegnelser (2007) and Nytte og utførte gjerninger (2016). She has translated poetry by Emily Dickinson and Anne Carson into Norwegian. Hødnebø has won several prizes: Sult-prisen in 2003, the Dobloug Prize in 2005, and Gyldendalprisen in 2018 (for 2017).