Eystein Eggen (5 January 1944, Oslo – 19 November 2010) was a Norwegian writer.
As a novelist Eggen made his debut with a story built on the life and death of general Carl Gustav Fleischer, the Norwegian commander in chief at Narvik 1940. Besides a portrait of the writer Agnar Mykle, his late father-in-law, Eggen has written novels with topics from medieval Norway. Eggen is from a family with several other contemporary Norwegian writers. In 1993 Eggen published The boy from Gimle - the story of a Nazi child, where he frankly and movingly tells about growing up in a Nazi milieu. Two years later the Norwegian war children got an official excuse. Eggen became a State Scholar in 2003. "He is a symbol of an entire generation", the spokesman for the Norwegian Labour Party said in parliament.
He died in 2010.[1]