Sigrun Slapgard (born 20 October 1953) is a Norwegian journalist, novelist and non-fiction writer. She worked as journalist for the

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, and has written novels and biographies of Lise Lindbæk,

Sigrid Undset Sigrid Undset (; 20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Danish people, Danish-born Norwegian people, Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1928. Born in Den ...

and Werna Gerhardsen. Her awards include the Melsom Prize and the Nynorsk Literature Prize.

Career

Slapgard was born in

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, and graduated as cand.mag. from the

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in 1980. She worked as journalist for

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from 1988, where she presented programs such as the actuality magazine , the

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television magazine , and its sequel . Her 2002 book ''Krigens penn'', a biography on war reporter Lise Lindbæk, earned her the Melsom Prize. In 2003 she wrote the book ''Krig og løgn'', discussing

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and the

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. She wrote a biography on novelist and

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in 2007. She wrote the novel in 2011. In 2013 she was awarded the Nynorsk Literature Prize, for the novel . This was an independent contiuation of the previous , and largely based on her own experiences. Further books are the novel from 2015, and the non-fiction books (2018), and (2020). In 2024 she wrote a biography of Werna Gerhardsen, titled .

References

1953 births Living people People from Hemsedal Norwegian journalists Norwegian women journalists NRK people Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian women non-fiction writers Norwegian biographers Norwegian women biographers University of Oslo alumni Nynorsk-language writers {{Norway-writer-stub