Eystein Eggen

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Eystein Eggen (5 January 1944, Oslo – 19 November 2010) was a Norwegian writer.^[1] Eggen is from a family with several other contemporary Norwegian writers.

As a novelist, Eggen made his debut with an about the life and death of general Carl Gustav Fleischer, the Norwegian commander in chief at Narvik 1940. He also wrote a portrait of the writer Agnar Mykle, his father-in-law and has written novels with topics from medieval Norway. In 1993 Eggen published The boy from Gimle—the story of a German child, who grows up in a Nazi milieu. As a consequence, two years later the Norwegian war children got an official excuse.^{[citation needed]} 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.

References

↑ "Eystein Eggen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 25 November 2010.

External links

Norwegian Government on Eggen (in English)
Stortinget: Møte fredag den 14. December kl. 10 2001 (in Norwegian)
An interview with Eggen

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 22253670 LCCN: n95045626 ISNI: 0000 0000 3060 6055 GND: 119381621 SUDOC: 034664890

Persondata
Name	Eggen, Eystein
Alternative names
Short description	Norwegian writer
Date of birth	5 January 1944
Place of birth
Date of death	19 November 2010
Place of death

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