Torgeir Schjerven

Torgeir Schjerven (born 28 August 1954) is a Norwegian author and lyric poet.

Schjerven trained as a visual artist.

He has worked as an actor in such films as Lasse & Geir (1976, directed by Svend Wam and Petter Vennerød) and Det tause flertall (The Silent Majority, 1977, directed by Svend Wam).

[1][2][3] In 1995, Schjerven was one of the finalists for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for the novel Omvei til Venus.

Torgeir Schjerven is married to the author Inger Elisabeth Hansen.