Marit Kaldhol is a Norwegian poet and children's writer.

She was born in Ålesund

Ålesund

is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre, and the center of the Ålesund Region. It is a sea port, and is noted for its unique concentration of Art Nouveau architecture....

. Her poetry collections include her 1983 debut Lattermilde laken ('Mirthful Bed Sheets') and 2005's Den einaste kjolen ('The Only Dress'). Her children's books include the internationally acclaimed Farvel, Rune ('Goodbye, Rune', 1986). Translated into German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 as Abschied von Rune, it earned her the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to recognise outstanding works of children's literature. It is Germany's only state-funded literary award. In the past, authors from many countries...

in 1988.