Sissel Lie (born 12 November 1942) is a Norwegian

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, translator,

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and professor in

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and literature at the

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since 1992.''Sissel Lie'' (Store norske leksikon)
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Biography

Sissel Lie was born in

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, f ...

, in

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county, Norway. Her literary début, the

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

collection ''Tigersmil'', won Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris for 1986. Her works have been translated into eight languages as of 2004. She has edited anthologies of French poets and translated poetry, short stories and novels from the French language. She has also been co-editor of ''Kvinnenes kulturhistorie'' (1985–1988).

Drama

*''Dansen''
Trondheim Kunstmuseum
*''Svømmersken'', performed at the National Theatre (1998)

Bibliography

*''Tigersmil'' –

anthology (1986) *''Løvens hjerte'' –

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(1988) *''Sjelen har intet kjønn : kvinner og kjærligheten i franske romaner på 1600-tallet og 1700-tallet'' – non-fiction, (1988) *''Granateple'' – novel, (1990) *''Reise gjennom brent sukker'' – novel (1992) *''Rød svane'' – novel, (1994) *''Pusegutten er en drittsekk'' – children's book, (1995) (illustrated by Kim Hiorthøy) *''Fri som foten : om å skrive fagtekster'' – textbook (1995) *''Pusegutten og den lille gule'' – children's book, (1996) (illustrated by Kim Hiorthøy) *''Pusegutten er eldst og tykkest og det har han tenkt å fortsette med!'' – children's book, (1997) (illustrated by Kim Hiorthøy) *''Svart due'' – novel, (1997) *''Bustehøner på busstur'' – children's book, (1998) (with Kjersti Lie, illustrated by Finn Graff) *''Pusegutter tåler nesten alt'' – children's book, (1999) *''Mor og Medusa : portrett av den moderne kunstneren'' – non-fiction, (1999) *''Jakten på jeget : blant amasoner og franske forførere'' – non-fiction, (2003)

Prizes

* Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris (1986) for ''Tigersmil'' *

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 ...

(1992)

References

External links

Nordic Womenwriters profileGyldendal profile
Living people 1942 births Writers from Kristiansand 20th-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian dramatists and playwrights French–Norwegian translators Norwegian women novelists Postmodern writers Norwegian women dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Norwegian women writers 20th-century Norwegian women writers Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters {{Norway-writer-stub