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Kari Hesthamar
NationalityNorway
Occupation(s)journalist, film-maker
Known foraward winning journalist

Kari Hesthamar is an award winning Norwegian journalist and film-maker, best known in the anglosphere for documenting the life of Marianne Ihlen, singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen's first muse, who went on to have a rich life of her own.[1][2] Hesthamar wrote and directed a documentary on Ihlen in 2006.[3] It was one of her award winning works. In 2008 Hesthamar wrote her own biography of Ihlen, "So Long, Marianne: A Love Story", which was translated into English in 2014.[4]

In 2014, in a review of Lana Del Rey's sophomore album, "Ultraviolence", Alexandra Molotkow, who had just read the recently released English translation of Hesthamar's book on Ihlen, compared Del Rey's persona of surrender to Ihlen's search for independence.[5] Molotkow described Del Rey as an artist, fully in control of her career, who, paradoxically, had chosen a performing persona as a weak and helpless female, who sought to surrender to powerful men. According to Molotkow, even though Ihlen had the reality of the fantasy Del Rey shows in her videos, of the woman socially and economically reliant on a man, Ihlen became fully independent.[6] According to Molotkow, Hesthamar's book is:

"... the story of a remarkable woman who was a muse – who has, until now, appeared in history as a man’s idea – and how she found herself. Often, the book reads as a caution against giving up your power."

References

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  1. ^ Alex Beam (2014-11-20). "From Greece, with love". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 2015-07-07. Retrieved 2016-08-06. Cohen and Ihlen embarked on a 10-year long love affair/shuttle romance that found them in Oslo, Montreal and/or New York, depending on circumstance. Cohen jokingly called Ihlen his "Greek muse," as he launched into a decade of creative fervor, culminating in the ultimate breakup song, "So Long, Marianne." ("We met when we were almost young. . . ")
  2. ^ Roger Aarli-Grøndalen (2019-04-28). "Dette er de nominerte til Fortellerprisen" [These are the nominees for the Narrator Award]. Journalisten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2019-08-28. Juryen ledes av Morten Frich, nyhetsredaktør i Politiken. Øvrige jurymedlemmer er Kari Hesthamar, Hilde Sandvik, Per Christian Magnus og Bjørn Asle Nord.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Av Kåre Bulie (2008-10-20). "Bohemliv i Hellas" [Bohemian life in Greece]. Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2019-08-28. Den begavede radiodokumentaristen Kari Hesthamar har i sin bokdebut valgt å fortelle en uvanlig historie: Om ei tilsynelatende nokså vanlig jente fra Oslo Vests borgerskap som forelsket seg i to unge menn som var i ferd med å bli kjente, og i dag er vesentlige navn i etterkrigstidas kulturhistorie – Axel Jensen i Norge, Leonard Cohen internasjonalt.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ Kevin Courtney (2014-08-06). "Leonard Cohen's quest for something higher". Irish Times. Retrieved 2014-08-06. And it brought him to the Greek island of Hydra, a haven for poets, writers and artists. One of those was a young Norwegian writer, Axel Jensen, who had moved to Hydra with his wife, Marianne Ihlen, and their infant son. Abandoned by the volatile and capricious Jensen, Ihlen met and began a relationship with the fascinating young Canadian writer with the gentle, measured personality.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Alexandra Molotkow (2014-06-20). "Lana Del Rey and the fantasy of surrender". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-08-06.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Kari Hesthamar (2014). So Long, Marianne: A Love Story. Translated by Helle V. Goldman. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-77090-501-6. Retrieved 2016-08-06.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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