Egil Rasmussen (28 April 1903 – 18 June 1964) was a Norwegian writer, literature critic and pianist.
Rasmussen was born in the village of
Bossekop fi, Possukoppa
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in
Alta, Norway. He grew up in
Tromsø
Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.
Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The municipality is the 21s ...
after Rasmussen's family moved to the city when he was 3 years old.
Rasmussen attended college and worked part time as a
lector
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. He received his
Ph.D.
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in 1949. From 1948 to 1964 he was literary critic for the newspaper ''
Aftenposten
( in the masthead; ; Norwegian for "The Evening Post") is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen) and estimated 1.2 millio ...
''. His first literary effort was at 20 years of age when he produced the novel ''Østen og vesten'' in 1923. His last novel, ''Den siste skrivekaren. En norsk bygdelegende'', was a
dystopia
A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...
n vision of the future, which came out posthumously in 1966.
He received the
Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (''Den norske Kritikerprisen for litteratur'' or ''Kritikerprisen'') is awarded by the Norwegian Literature Critics' Association (''Norsk Litteraturkritikerlag'') and has been awarded every year since 1950 ...
(''Kritikerprisen'') in 1953 for his novel ''Sonjas hjerte''.
Bibliography
*''Østen og Vesten'' – novel (1923)
*''Drapsmanden. Roman fra Tromsø'' – novel (1925)
*''Mørk demring'' – novel (1934)
*''Idag er alt mulig'' – novel (1937)
*''Et rop i stormen'' – novel (1938)
*''Presten fra havet'' – novel (1941)
*''Kunstneren og samfunnsbildet'' – prose (1949)
*''Angstens dikter Edgar Allan Poe'' – prose (1949)
*''Gammelprestens koffert'' – novel (1950)
*''Sonjas hjerte'' – novel (1953)
*''En konge rider hjem'' – novel (1955)
*''Det dømte hus'' – novel (1957)
*''Hvor ørnene samles'' – novel (1958)
*''Guttene fra Gokkohjørnet'' – novel (1959)
*''Legenden om Lovella'' – novel (1961)
*''Den siste skrivekaren. En norsk bygdelegende'' – novel (1966)
Prizes
*
Gyldendal's Endowment Gyldendal's Endowment was a literature prize which was awarded in the period 1934–1995 by the Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. The prize was awarded to significant authors, regardless of which publisher the author was associated w ...
- 1950 (jointly with Hans Henrik Holm)
*
Kritikerprisen - 1953 (for ''Sonjas hjerte'')
*
Mads Wiel Nygaards legat - 1958
References
1903 births
1964 deaths
Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature winners
People from Tromsø
20th-century Norwegian novelists
People from Alta, Norway
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