knighted by Cardinal Foley. Knight Commander (2016). Grand Officer (with star) (2022) : Knight Commander of the Order of the Falcon by the President of Iceland (1995). Commander with Star (2017). Sovereign Military Order of Malta, knighted 2021. Other Bastian Prize (1984) by the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators Anders Jahre Cultural Prize (2001) Jan Smrek Prize (2009) for his literary work in Bratislava, Slovakia Dobloug Prize (2011) by the Swedish Academy Golden Medal, 1. Prize, World Congress of Poets, Taiwan (2010) The Goden Key of Smederevo, Serbia (2014) International poetry prize Le Prix Special and Mihai Eminescu medal, Academie Internationale "Mihai Eminescu", Romania (2015) International poetry prize The Golden Grape, Kosovo (2016) Ulaanbaatar international poetry prize, Mongolia (2017) References 1945 births Living people Norwegian male poets People from Molde Knights of the Holy Sepulchre 20th-century Norwegian poets 20th-century Norwegian male writers 21st-century Norwegian poets 21st-century Norwegian male writers Translators of the Poetic Edda