Eldrid Lunden
Eldrid Lunden (born 5 October 1940) is a Norwegian poet, and 1996 became Norway's first professor in creative writing, at Telemark University College. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1989, and the Brage Prize honorary award in 2000. She was awarded the Amalie Skram Prize in 2000.
Eldrid Lunden
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- Born
- 1940. · Naustdal Municipality.
- Nationality
- Norway.
- Occupation
- poet, university teacher and writer.
- Fields
- lyric poetry, creative writing and essay.
- Movements
- modernism and existentialism.
- Education
- University of Oslo.
- Honours
- Dobloug Prize, Amalie Skram Award, Aschehoug Prize, Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize, Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment and Nynorsk Literature Prize.
- Languages
- Norwegian and Nynorsk.
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Eldrid Lunden (born 5 October 1940) is a Norwegian poet, and 1996 became Norway's first professor in creative writing, at Telemark University College. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1989, and the Brage Prize honorary award in 2000. She was awarded the Amalie Skram Prize in 2000.
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Eldrid Lunden born at Naustdal Municipality.
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- <i>Dialogues in Poetry: An Essay on Eldrid Lunden</i> (review), Scandinavian Studies, 2012
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- Dialogues in Poetry: An Essay on Eldrid Lunden, Scandinavian Studies, 2012
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Lunden belonged to the circle surrounding the modernist literary magazine Profil. She is a sister of Kåre Lunden. Lunden married 1994 the Swedish literary scholar and poet Reidar Ekner and lived with him in Telemark till he died 2014.
Eldrid Lunden studied at University of Oslo. The recorded working language is Norwegian and Nynorsk. The field of work recorded is lyric poetry, creative writing and essay. Employment is recorded with Telemark University College. Distinctions recorded are Dobloug Prize, Amalie Skram Award, Aschehoug Prize and Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize.
Nynorsk Literature Prize 1982 Dobloug Prize 1989 Aschehougprisen 1992 Brage Prize 2000 – honorary award Swedish Academy Nordic Prize 2012
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