Eva Lund Haugen (February 4, 1907 – October 25, 1996) was an American writer, editor and translator.

Biography

Eva Lund was born at

Kongsvinger Kongsvinger () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Glåmdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsvinger. Other settlements in the municipality include Aus ...

Hedmark Hedmark () was a county in Norway before 1 January 2020, bordering Trøndelag to the north, Oppland to the west, Akershus to the south, and Sweden to the east. The county administration is in Hamar. Hedmark and Oppland counties were merged int ...

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. She was twelve years old when her journalist parents emigrated to the

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in 1919. The family moved to

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in 1927, where both parents worked for the

Norwegian-American Norwegian Americans ( nb, Norskamerikanere, nn, Norskamerikanarar) are Americans with ancestral roots in Norway. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the latter half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the ...

newspaper, '' Decorah-Posten''. Her father, Einar Lund (18801963) was editor of the newspaper from 1946 to 1962. She attended the

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in 19301931. She received her B.A. degree from the

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. In 1932, she married American linguist

Einar Haugen Einar Ingvald Haugen (; April 19, 1906 – June 20, 1994) was an American linguist, writer, and professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard University. Biography Haugen was born in Sioux City, Iowa, to Norwegian immigrants from t ...

with whom she was author, co-editor or translator of several books. Separately, she was author and translator of several published works relating to

heritage. She is most associated with her work as translator and editor in connection with works of Norwegian writer and

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laureate,

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguishe ...

. The Einar and Eva Lund Haugen Memorial Scholarship has been established to honor both Eva Lund Haugen and her husband,

Selected bibliography

* ''Land of the Free: Bjornstjerne Bjornson's America Letters'' (Norwegian American Historic Association., Northfield, MN. 1978) * ''Peder Anderson of Bergen and Lowell : Artist and Ambassador of Culture'' (Norwegian-American Studies, Oslo 1973) * ''Bibliography of Scandinavian Dictionaries '' (Kraus International, White Plains, New York, March 1985) * ''An Editor Chooses America: The Story of Einar Lund.'' (Norse Heritage Volume II, 58–72. Norwegian Emigration Center, 1991)

References

External links

Norway official site in the United States. Einar and Eva Lund Haugen Memorial Scholarship

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haugen, Eva Lund 1907 births 1996 deaths People from Kongsvinger People from Hedmark American Lutherans University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Norwegian emigrants to the United States Norwegian–English translators 20th-century translators Scandinavian studies 20th-century Lutherans