Eli Krog (née Meyer; 1891–1970) was a Norwegian publicist, translator and author.

Biography

Eli Krog was born in

Oslo, Norway Oslo ( or ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of towns and cities in Norway, most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a Counties of Norway, county and a Municipalities of Norway, municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a populat ...

. She was the daughter of newspaper editor Ludvig Meyer (1861-1938) and his second wife Augusta Gran (1865-1936). In 1912, she married journalist and playwright

Helge Krog Helge Krog (9 February 1889 – 30 July 1962) was a Norwegian journalist, essayist, theatre and literary critic, translator and playwright. Personal life Krog was born in Kristiania, the son of jurist Fredrik Arentz Krog and Ida Cecilie Thores ...

(1889–1962). The couple divorced in 1947. Krog was an important voice in the foundation of the Norwegian Translators Association (''Norsk Oversetterforening'') in 1948, and was chair of the organisation from 1949-61. In 1951, she produced the first translation of the works of

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winning British author

Doris Lessing Doris May Lessing ( Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Qajar Iran, Persia, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where ...

(1919–2013) into the Norwegian language. ''

The Grass Is Singing ''The Grass Is Singing'', published in 1950, is the first novel by the British author Doris Lessing. It takes place in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in southern Africa, during the 1940s and deals with the racial politics between whites and ...

'' was translated and published under the title ''Det synger i gresset'' (Gyldendal, 1951) for which she won the

Bastian Prize The Bastian Prize () is a prize awarded annually by the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators. The prize, established in 1951, is given for translating a published work into Norwegian language. The award is a statue made by Ørnulf Bast, ...

(''Bastianprisen'') in 1952. Krog also edited the anthologies of author

Tarjei Vesaas Tarjei Vesaas (20 August 1897 – 15 March 1970) was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Vesaas is widely considered to be one of Norway's greatest writers of the twentieth century and perhaps its most important since World War II. Vesaas' work is c ...

''Huset i mørkret'' (Gyldendal. 1949). Her biography ''Lek med minner'' (Aschehoug, 1966) provided vivid images of the art environment surrounding her former husband, Helge Krog.

References

1891 births 1970 deaths Writers from Oslo 20th-century Norwegian translators {{Norway-writer-stub