Meet this year’s festival poet at Kapittel: Øyvind Rimbereid
In this lecture, Øyvind Rimbereid will attempt to drill towards the centre of the poem (wherever that may be), while also placing the poem as a form within a broader literary context.

Øyvind Rimbereid quickly established himself as one of the most distinct, original, and challenging voices in contemporary Norwegian poetry. His linguistic awareness offers readers sharp reflections and precise perceptions. His poetry collections have earned him numerous awards. In 2008, he was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize for Herbarium, which also won the Brage Prize that year. In 2010, he received the Dobloug Prize and was again nominated for the Nordic Council Prize for Jimmen (2011). He has won the Critics’ Prize for Solaris korrigert (2004) and Orgelsjøen (2013), making him the only poet to have received it twice. In 2023, he was awarded the Triztan Vindtorn Poetry Prize. He has also published the collections Lovene (2015), Lenis plassar (2017), Hvit hare, grå hare, svart (2019), and Hvorfor hjerte nummer to (2023).

Rimbereid made his debut with the short story collection Det har begynt in 1993 and followed up with another story collection and a novel before his poetic debut with Seine topografiar in 2000. He holds a cand.philol. degree in Nordic language and literature from the University of Bergen and was for many years Head of Teaching at the Academy of Writing in Hordaland.

Øyvind Rimbereid was born in 1966 in Stavanger, where he still resides.

The event is part of Kapittel – Stavanger International Festival for Literature and Freedom of Expression, 17–21 September 2025. More info, programme and tickets at www.kapittel.no.