Gerd Brantenberg
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Gerd Brantenberg (* October 27, 1941 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian author, teacher, and feminist writer.
Her most famous novel is Egalias døtre ("The Daughters of Egalia"), which was published in 1977 in Norway. In the novel the female is defined as the normal and the male as the abnormal, subjugated sex. All words that are normally in masculine form are given in a feminine form, and vice versa.
Brantenberg was born in Oslo, but grew up in Fredrikstad. She studied English, History, and Sociology in London, Edinburgh, and Oslo.
She worked from 1972-1983 in the Women's House in Oslo. In 1978 she founded a literary Women's Forum with the purpose of encouraging women to write and publish. She has published 10 novels, 2 plays, 2 translations, and many political songs, and has contributed to numerous anthologies.
In 1986 she was awarden the Danish literary prize "Thitprisen", named after the Danish author Thit Jensen.
The following novels have been published in English:
- What Comes Naturally (London, 1986)
- Egalia's Daughters, (Seattle 1986) or The Daughters of Egalia (London 1985)
- The Four Winds (Seattle, 1996).
[edit] Links
- http://skrift.no/brantenberg/ (Biography in Norwegian)
- http://www.dagbladet.no/kontekst/15753.html (Biography in Dagbladet, Norwegian Newspaper)
