onkel-hva
Norwegian
Onkel Hva was born in a mud hut in Teveldal, Norway in 1948. His parents were illiterate potato farmers, and little Hva had to teach himself to read & write. / At the age of seven he was sent away to school in Meråker, where he was profoundly shocked to find actual paper and honest to God books. / That was, however the only good thing to be said of his years at the School. Hva ended up a bitter loner. And he has been like that ever since. / / He found his voice in poetry quite early on, writing melancholy and bile-filled poems about loneliness & solitude & women's naughty bits. / In 1966 he managed to publish a book of selected poetry with the now-defunct publishing house TrønderPoesi. It was called Refleksjoner Over Blind Høne. / / Since then, things have been rather silent around Onkel Hva, but he recently (in 1982) met what would become his manly muse, Onkel Ugle (born in a marsh outside of Oslo in 1949). They are now working on their magnum opus, Bus-Tour Rhymes.
