About the Author:
C Hottran was born in 1975 in Kristiansund, a town on the northwest coast of Norway. She was raised by her grandmother till the age of 9 and then in 1984 she reunited with her mother in Oslo. In 1988 C and her family immigrated to the United States of America. But her family wasn't granted permanent residence status to stay, so they returned to Norway only one year later. In 1989 she attended a boarding school, where she lived for three years. And already at the age of seventeen she was living on her own. In 1994 she met a man who later became her husband, she gave birth to the couple's daughter in January of 2001 and after eight years of marriage she divorced in the beginning of 2003. Today she still lives with her daughter in Oslo.

Poetry by Cathrine Hottran

The Devil's Work

Soldiers shooting their guns, without blinking.
Remains are left in the street, stinking.
The world is like a ship, that's sinking.
No one for war, can truly be thinking.

While Georgie boy gets away with lying,
Torturing and occupying,
Another child is wounded and crying.
He just lost his mother and his father is dying.

Hate around the world keeps growing.
The hope we had has now stopped glowing.
No good can come from the blood that's flowing.
It's the devil's work, which now is showing.


                               --C Hottran


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