Rune Christiansen made his debut as a poet at 23, with the collection Hvor toget forlater havet ('Where the train leaves the sea') in 1986, and since then has published many volumes of poetry and five novels.

He has translated the work of Alain Bosquet, Eugenio Montale and Frank Kuppner, and set his novel Steve McQueen is dead (1997) in Glasgow. When he was awarded the Halldis Moren Vesaas poetry prize in 1996, the jury remarked that his poetry revealed a new phase in Norwegian modernity, with its 'tough but sensual masculine urbanity, not alienated from but integrated with the elements'. He was awarded the Dobloug Prize by the Swedish Academy in 2003.

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