Name Terje Stigen Role Author | Education University of Oslo | |
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Died August 14, 2010, Oslo, Norway Books Norway, The crystal ball, Peter Johannes Lookhas: roman Awards Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, Gyldendal's Endowment, Riksmal Society Literature Prize Nominations Nordic Council's Literature Prize | ||
Terje Stigen (28 June 1922 – 14 August 2010) was a Norwegian author.
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Terje Stigen was born on Magerøya in Finnmark, Norway but spent part of his childhood in Tromsø. After his final exams at Nordstrand school in Aker during 1941, he studied philology at the University of Oslo, cand.philol. English majors in 1947.)
He wrote 44 novels and short story collections, almost a new year, besides radio plays and numerous articles. Besides novels and short story collections, he wrote a series of radio plays for Radioteatret. Stigen debuted as an author in 1950 with publication of his novel To døgn. He wrote numerous books, mostly novels, but also a number of lectures and radio dramas. He wrote in Bokmål, the more common of the two Norwegian languages. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.