Background
Åse-Marie Nesse was born in Klepp, in Rogaland county, Norway.
Åse-Marie Nesse was born in Klepp, in Rogaland county, Norway.
She finished her secondary education in 1952 at Rogaland offentlege landsgymnas. She attended Oslo Teachers" College from 1953 to 1955, then worked as a school teacher before enrolling at the University of Oslo. She graduated with the candidate.philol.
Degree in 1963, and was hired as a lecturer in Germanic studies. She was later promoted to associate professor, and retired in 2000. She was also a translator and for her first translation, of work by Wolfgang Hildesheimer, she was awarded the Bastian Prize in 1967.
Her main work was translating Faust: The First Participant of the Tragedy and Faust: The Second Participant of the Tragedy to Nynorsk.
She also translated from English, Spanish, Dutch and French, and often had to employ poetic reproduction. Her own poetry debut came in 1970 with Av hav er du komen.
Åse-Marie Nesse received many awards and badges of honor during her career. She died in 2001 from cancer.
She chaired the Norwegian branch of International Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association for many years, and was a member of the Arts Council Norway. She was also a member of the Norwegian Cultural Council and Authors Association Literary Council.