Anne-Lisa Amadou (4 March 1930 – 19 March 2002) was a Norwegian literary researcher. She was born in Oslo. In 1966 she took her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree with a thesis on

Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel ''In Search of Lost Time'' (''À la recherche du temps perdu''; with the previous Eng ...

. She was a Professor of French literature at the University of Oslo from 1970 to 1982. In 1981 she was awarded the Bastian Prize for her translation of ''

In Search of Lost Time ''In Search of Lost Time'' (french: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'', and sometimes referred to in French as ''La Recherche'' (''The Search''), is a novel in seven volumes by French ...

''. (french: A la recherche du temps perdu) and, in 1984, the Fritt Ord Honorary Award.

Work

* 1965 ''The poet and his work – a study in Marcel Proust's aesthetics'' about

* 1970 ''The Face of Tartuffe and Other Essays'' on Molière * 1978 ''Eleven French novel studies'' on Marcel Proust * 1994 ''Giving love a language'' about Sigrid Undset

References

1930 births 2002 deaths Writers from Oslo Norwegian literary historians Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian women academics 20th-century Norwegian translators 20th-century Norwegian women writers 20th-century Norwegian writers Women literary historians Norwegian women historians {{Norway-academic-bio-stub