Nora Simonhjell (born 26 July 1970) is a Norwegian literary scholar, author and poet. She is a full professor of

Norwegian literature Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic poems and skaldic verse of the 9th and 10th centuries with poets such as Bragi Boddason and Eyvindr ...

at the

University of Agder The University of Agder ( no, Universitetet i Agder), formerly known as Agder College and Agder University College, is a public university with campuses in Kristiansand and Grimstad, Norway. The institution was established as a university co ...

Career

She earned her cand.philol. degree in literature at the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 194 ...

in 1996 and her PhD at the University of Agder in 2010. She was a research fellow at the University of Agder from 2005 to 2008, and then an associate professor at the Scandinavian Studies department at Aarhus University. She is now a full professor of Norwegian literature at the University of Agder. She has published two collections of poetry. Her first poetry collection, titled ''Slaktarmøte'', was published by Tiden Norsk Forlag in 1999. In 2001 her second poetry collection, titled ''Kvassare'', was published by Tiden. Both her research and her fiction works revolve around questions of identity, such as the creation and recreation of identity. She received the Article of the Year – Scandinavian University Press Academic Journal Prize in 2019, for the article "De skrev henne ned."

Selected bibliography

* ''Slaktarmøte'', poetry, Tiden Norsk Forlag (1999) * ''Kvassare'', poetry, Tiden Norsk Forlag (2001) * ''Norsk litterær årbok'', Det Norske Samlaget (2017)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Simonhjell, Nora 1970 births Living people University of Bergen alumni Norwegian poets Norwegian literary historians Academic staff of the University of Agder