Håvard Rem was born on February 7th 1959 in Oslo in Norway. His first book has been published in 1977. Håvard has published collections of poems, religious books on Jesus life, and books on Bob Dylan and Leonhard Cohen. Håvard also worked for Aftenposten, Norwegian newspaper. Håvard has been becoming more and more popular for several years partly because he met Morten Harket in 1993. Indeed, the first solo album of Morten, Poetenes Evangelium, was at first the name of a collection of religious poems written by Håvard Rem. As a consequence, Morten figured out that the Engelem
poem could match with music to do a song. After the release of Poetenes Evangelium, they carried on with working together. Håvard actively participated to the following Morten's solo albums. Today, he carries on with working with a-ha albums in English.
His books have recently been translated into Russian which gave the opportunity to Håvard  to go to Moscow in November 2003.

List of songs written by Håvard :
Engelem (Poetenes Evangelium - 1993)
A kind of chrismas card (Wild Seed - 1995)
Spanish Steps (together with Morten - Wild Seed - 1995)
Los Angeles (Wild Seed - 1995)
East Timor (together with Morten - Wild Seed - 1995)
Lay me down tonight (based on Vuggevise poem - Wild Seed - 1995)
Tell me what you see (Based on a Norwegian poem - Wild Seed - 1995)
Stay (based on a Norwegian poem - Wild Seed - 1995)
Lord (Wild Seed - 1995)
Jeg kjenner ingen fremtid (Together with Harket - Vogts Villa - 1996)
Herre i drØmmen (together with Olsen and Harket - Vogts Villa - 1996)
Fremmed her (Together with Harket - Vogts Villa - 1996)
SØndag Morgen (Together with Harket - Vogts Villa - 1996)
Gammal og vis (Together with Harket - Vogts Villa - 1996)
Taksameteret Går (Together with Harket - Vogts Villa - 1996)
Vuggevise (Together with Harket - Vogts Villa - 1996)
To let you win (Together with Harket - Minor Earth Major Sky - 2000)
To let you win was written in 1997 with Morten during a scuba/diving trip with Håvard. That song was designed to be in the forthcoming solo album of Morten but in the end the song appeared in the a-ha album Minor Earth Major Sky released in 2000.

To read some of Håvard texts in French, please click on the Discography section and then on the cover's picture.

Bibliography :

Call to Hero (1977)
His first book dedicated to his mother.

Behind half opened-door (1985)
Collection of poems. Included the poems
"Engelem" and "Vuggevise" taken up by Morten later on.

 Galgeland's land (1991)
Collection of Religious poems.
Dark and gloomy view of religion.
 

Taksameteret Går (1996)
Collection of the most beautiful poems of Håvard
between 1977 and 1996. Are included a number of poems taken up
by Morten later on.
 

Bob Dylan (1999)
Collection of poems written by Bob Dylan.
Translation of lyrics in Norwegian.
Voyage into Bob Dylan's world.
 

The Echo (1999)
Collection of poems about a tale of a gnone and a witch.

If the Moon had as sister
Book published in a limited edition with a Leonard Cohen album.
Are included a brief biography of Leonard Cohen as well as a interview made in Oslo in 1992 with Håvard Rem and Håkon Harket.

Blue
Book dedicated to the South of Norway. Its nature, history, way of life. It is dedicated to people who lived in the South of Norway.

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