Eystein Eggen (5 January 1944 in

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– 19 November 2010) was a Norwegian writer. Eggen was from a family with several other contemporary Norwegian writers. Eggen made his debut with a book about the life and death of general

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, the Norwegian commander in chief at

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1940. He also wrote a portrait of the writer

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, his father-in-law. Eggen wrote novels with topics from medieval Norway. In 1993 Eggen published ''The boy from Gimle''—the autobiographical story of a Norwegian childhood in a Nazi milieu. As a consequence, two years later the Norwegian

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got an official excuse. Eggen became a State Scholar in 2003. "He is a symbol of an entire generation", the spokesman for the

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said in parliament.

References

External links

Norwegian Government on Eggen
(in English)

(in Norwegian)
An interview with Eggen
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eggen, Eystein 1944 births 2010 deaths People from Tolga, Norway Writers from Oslo Norwegian World War II memoirists 20th-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian novelists