Eldrid Lunden

Eldrid Lunden
Eldrid Lunden in Delphi, 2000
Eldrid Lunden in Delphi, 2000
Born (1940-10-05) 5 October 1940 (age 84)
Neustdal, Norway
Occupationpoet, essayist
NationalityNorwegian
GenreModernism
Notable awards

Eldrid Lunden (born 5 October 1940) is a Norwegian poet, and 1996 became Norway's first professor in creative writing, at Telemark University College. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1989, and the Brage Prize honorary award in 2000.[1]

Lunden belonged to the circle surrounding the modernist literary magazine Profil.

She was born in Naustdal and took her cand.philol. degree at the University of Oslo.[2] She is a sister of Kåre Lunden.[2]

Lunden married 1994 the Swedish literary scholar and poet Reidar Ekner[3] and lived with him in Telemark till he died 2014.

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Tidligere vinnere av Brageprisen" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 10 June 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
  2. ^ a b Aanderaa, Dag. "Eldrid Lunden". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Eldrid Lunden". Nordk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
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