Marie Colban

Marie Colban (18 December 1814 – 27 March 1884) was a Norwegian novelist, short story writer and translator. She was married to teacher Nathanael Angell Colban (1793–1850) from 1836. She translated Eugène Sue's novel Mathilde and other literary works from French into Norwegian language. From 1856 she lived in Paris, and also wrote for Norwegian newspapers. Her first literary work was Lærerinden, en Skizze from 1869. From 1882 to 1884 she published a series of memoir articles from her Paris years in the magazine Nyt Tidsskrift. She died in Rome in 1884.