Eva Scheer (13 March 1915 – 22 June 1999) was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, translator and author.

Personal life

Scheer was born on 13 March 1915 in

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

to Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. In 1942, during the

German occupation of Norway The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until th ...

, several of her family members were deported and eventually murdered in the

Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 Nazi concentration camps, concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) d ...

, while Scheer managed to flee to Sweden.

Career

After

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, Scheer worked as journalist for the newspaper ''

Arbeiderbladet is a daily newspaper published in Oslo, Norway. The former party organ of the Norwegian Labour Party, the ties loosened over time from 1975 to 1999. It has borne several names, and was called ''Arbeiderbladet'' from 1923 to 1997. Eirik Hoff Lys ...

''. She made her literary debut in 1948, with the book ''Vi bygger i sand''. She was a co-founder of the

Norwegian Association of Literary Translators Norwegian Association of Literary Translators () is an association for Norwegian literary translators, founded in 1948. The association has awarded the annual Bastian Prize from 1951, for best literary translation into the Norwegian language. The p ...

in 1948, and also worked as literary critic. She was a reporter for ''Arbeiderbladet'' in Palestine and Israel during the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, and her books on this issue include ''Vi møttes i Jerusalem '' from 1951, and ''Israel: dobbelt-løftets land'' from 1967. In 1954 she wrote the children's book ''Teddybjørn på bølgelengde''. Her book ''Posene på gjerdestolpen'' from 1977 contains Jewish fairytales and folklore translated for children. Her later books include ''Papirbroen: jødisk drøm og virkelighet'' (1979), ''Tre er fedrene, fire mødrene'' (1981), ''En smak av vintreets frukt'' (1982), and ''Hundene gjør ved vanningsstedet'' (1983).

Death and legacy

Scheer died on 22 June 1999. The book ''Jødiske fortellinger: Fra shtetl til Grünerløkka'' was published in 2015, containing a collection of jewish stories written down by Scheer. In 2015 she was also part of the exhibition ''Kvinner i jiddisch kultur'' hosted at the Jewish Museum in Oslo.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scheer, Eva 1915 births 1999 deaths Writers from Oslo Norwegian people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent 20th-century Norwegian Jews Norwegian expatriates in Sweden Norwegian women writers 20th-century Norwegian translators 20th-century Norwegian journalists