Kolbein Falkeid (19 December 1933 – 27 June 2021)[1][2] was a Norwegian poet and lyricist.
From 1962 onwards, he published over thirty titles, including his play The Terrorists (1980), which has been performed in Bergen, Norway at Den Nationale Scene, as well as in Japan, New York City, and Tel Aviv.
Falkeid retired from a longstanding position teaching Norwegian language and literature at a public school in his hometown of Haugesund on the West Coast of Norway.
Kolbein Falkeid published Norwegian language translations of poems by a wide, international array of poets such as Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Leopold Senghor, Nicanor Parra, D.H. Lawrence and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Honors include Norway’s foremost artistic grant, Statens Store Arbeidsstipendium, since 1978; the Cappelen Award, 1985; the Swedish Academy’s Dobloug Prize, 1993; the Stavanger Aftenblad Cultural Award, 1994; the Prøysen Award, 1996; the title of Bergen International Festival Poet of the Year, 1998; the Herman Wildenvey Poetry Award, 2001; and the Norwegian Brage Prize, 2011.