Øyvind Rimbereid

Øyvind Rimbereid (born 2 May 1966 in Stavanger) is a Norwegian author and composer of lyric poetry. He has worked as an instructor at Skrivekunstakademiet in Bergen. Rimbereid holds a cand. philol. degree from the University of Bergen with high marks in Nordic languages and literature. He won the Brage Prize 2008 for his poetry collection Herbarium.

Prizes

 * Sult-prisen 2001
 * Den norske Lyrikklubbens pris 2002
 * The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (Kritikerprisen) 2004, for Solaris korrigert
 * The Brage Prize 2008, for Herbarium
 * Shortlisted for Nordic Council's Literature Prize 2009, for Herbarium
 * The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (Kritikerprisen) 2013, for Orgelsjøen
 * Aschehougprisen 2017