Eldrid Lunden (born 5 October 1940) is a Norwegian poet, and 1996 became

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

's first professor in creative writing, at

Telemark University College Telemark University College (TUC, no, Høgskolen i Telemark, HiT) was, until its merger, the fourth largest university college in Norway. The University College had about 7000 students, split between four different locations in Bø, Notodden, Por ...

. She was awarded the

Dobloug Prize The Dobloug Prize ( sv, Doblougska priset, no, Doblougprisen) is a literature prize awarded for Swedish and Norwegian fiction. The prize is named after Norwegian businessman and philanthropist Birger Dobloug (1881–1944) pursuant to his bequest. T ...

in 1989, and the

Brage Prize The Brage Prize (Norwegian: ''Brageprisen'') is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation (''Den norske bokprisen''). The prize recognizes recently published Norwegian literature. The Brage Pri ...

honorary award in 2000. Lunden belonged to the circle surrounding the modernist literary magazine '' Profil''. She was born in

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and took her cand.philol. degree at the

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. She is a sister of Kåre Lunden. Lunden married 1994 the Swedish literary scholar and poet Reidar Ekner and lived with him in Telemark till he died 2014.

Awards

Nynorsk Literature Prize The Nynorsk Literature Prize is awarded annually by Noregs Mållag, Det Norske Teatret and Det Norske Samlaget for the best book in either Nynorsk or dialect. The award is presented for the best novel, poetry, novellas, or drama in the past year. ...

1982 *

1989 * Aschehougprisen 1992 *

2000 – honorary award * Swedish Academy Nordic Prize 2012

References

1940 births Living people Norwegian women poets People from Naustdal University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of Telemark University College Dobloug Prize winners Nynorsk-language writers Norwegian women academics {{Norway-writer-stub