Svein Mønnesland

Svein Karl Mønnesland (born 1943) is a Norwegian Slavist.

He was born in Skien. Since 1978 he teaches as a professor of Slavic languages at the University of Oslo. He is considered an expert in Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian), and has written numerous books and articles on Serbo-Croatian, Slavic linguistics, literature and cultural history. He has held a variety of positions, including that of the Nordic representative of the International Committee for Eastern Europe Research and on the Board of the Institute for Comparative Cultural Research. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[1]

Works

• Tsjekkoslovakia 20 år etter Praha-våren. Oslo: Rådet for sovjet- og østeuropastudier, 1988
• Reform og despoti. Oslo: Rådet for sovjet- og østeuropastudier, 1989
• Før Jugoslavia, og etter. Oslo: Sypress, 1992
• Bosnia-Hercegovina. Oslo: Sypress, 1994
• Kosovo. Oslo: Sypress, 1994
• Bosnisk, kroatisk, serbisk grammatikk. Oslo: Sypress, 2002

Translations

• Jugoslavisk kvartett. Oslo: Samlaget, 1968
• Nattergal og våpengny. Oslo: Samlaget, 1971
• Vasko Popa: Den flammende ulvinnen. Solum, 1978
• Munib Delalić: Bare storm og solnedgang tok jeg med fra Hercegovina. Andresen & Butenschøn, 2009

References