Torill Thorstad Hauger (22 November 1943 – 4 July 2014) was a Norwegian novelist, children's writer, non-fiction writer and illustrator. She was the author of a number of prize-winning novels with historical themes for children and teenagers.
Biography
Torill Thorstad Hauger was born in
Oslo, Norway. She was raised in the neighborhood of
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where she attended a school for art and crafts. She was enrolled at the
University of Oslo where she studied German,
ethnology, folklore and
archaeology. During the period from 1966 to 1971, she worked at the University Museum of National Antiquities, History Museum. She made her literary début in 1976, with the prize-winning documentary ''Karl Eugen Olsen fra Vika''. Between 1978 and 2001, she wrote children's books first with the
Viking era as a backdrop. Her subsequent books were placed in the
Middle Ages with later books featuring emigration to
North America
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. These books proved popular with several subsequent publications.
Her documentary ''Krestiane Kristiania'' from 1984 earned her the
Norwegian Booksellers' Prize. She was awarded the
Norwegian Critics Prize for the years best children's or youth's literature in 1980. She was awarded the
Dobloug Prize in 1991. Her children's book ''Sigurd Drakedreper'' was basis for a film in 1989. Torill Thorstad Hauger was director of the Youth Literary Organization (''Ungdomslitteraturens Forfatterlag'') from 1980–83 and leader of the Medieval Oslo Interest Association (''Interesseforeningen Oslos Middelalder'') from 1995-2001. Torill Thorstad Hauger died on 4 July 2014, aged 70.
Selected works
*''Karl Eugen Olsen fra Vika'' (1976)
*''Røvet av vikinger'' (1978)
*''Flukten fra vikingene'' (1979)
*''Det kom et skip til Bjørgvin i 1349'' (1980)
*''Trekk fra Oslos historie ''(1981)
*''Sigurd Drakedreperen'' (1982)
*''Krestiane Kristiania'' (1984)
*''I Dorotheas hus'' (1986)
*''Ravnejenta'' (1989)
*''Varulven og Iselin'' (1992)
*''Sagaen om Håkon og Kristin'' (1993)
*''Tarzan på loftet'' (1993)
*''Tord Illugesson'' (1995)
*''Den store Chicagoreisen'' (1999)
*''Ulvebarna i Vikingdalen'' (2003)
Awards
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Norwegian Critics Prize for the years best children's or youth's literature 1980
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Norwegian Booksellers' Prize 1984
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Dobloug Prize 1991
References
External links
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1943 births
2014 deaths
Writers from Oslo
20th-century Norwegian novelists
21st-century Norwegian novelists
Norwegian non-fiction writers
Norwegian children's writers
Dobloug Prize winners
Norwegian women non-fiction writers
Norwegian women children's writers
21st-century Norwegian women writers
20th-century Norwegian women writers