Odd eidem

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Odd eidem

Odd Eidem (born October 23, 1913 in Oslo , † June 10, 1988 in Nesodden ) was a Norwegian writer and literary critic . He also published under the pseudonym Justino Valente .

Life

Eidems parents were Dorothea Serine Eidem and Gunnar Kølbel , who ran his print shop together with his father. The parents separated when Eidem was a child. He and his two younger brothers grew up with their mother in Hamar . After graduating from high school, he began studying literary history in Oslo in 1933. During his student days he wrote articles for the Hamar Arbeiderblad newspaper . In 1937 he published a book about German writers in exile under the title Diktere i landfylktighet . After he achieved his master's degree in 1938 , he worked in the Nansenamt until the invasion by the Wehrmacht in 1940 . During this time, in 1939, he published his first novel, Uten fane .

After the war he got a job as a literary critic and from 1955 also a theater critic at the newly founded newspaper Verdens Gang . He worked there until 1977. He then wrote a weekly column for the newspaper Aftenposten from 1978 to 1988 . Eidem wrote numerous essayistic and partly satirical short texts, the children's book Jeppe Jansen's Giraffe as well as plays, travelogues and other novels in the 1970s and 1980s.

Eidem received several literary prizes, including the 1968 Bokhandler Prize for Zikzak , the 1978 Critic Prize for the novel Cruise and the Cappelen Prize in 1980. Also in 1980, his novel Pieter og jeg was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize.

Works (selection)

Novels

  • Uten fan (1939)
  • Kala (1971)
  • Cruise (1978)
  • Pieter og jeg (1979)

Spectacles

  • Spillet om Bly-Petter (1947)
  • Min kvinne (1956)
  • Guds gjøglere (1960)

Historical literary writings

  • Diktere i landflyktighet (1935)

Short texts

  • Vinden blåser fra nord (1948)
  • Kefir and chianti. Strollers om nordboere (1958)
  • Sett from Sirius (1963)

Children's books

  • Jeppe Jansens giraff (1969; German: Jeppe Jansens Giraffe, 1979)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Bien: Eidem, Odd in: Meyers Taschenlexikon North European Literature , Leipzig 1978
  2. ↑ Page about Odd Eidem ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Hedmark flykes library @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hedmarkslitteraturer.no
  3. ↑ Eidem, Odd in: Hvem er hvem? Kunnskapsforlaget, Oslo 1984

Web links

  • Odd Eidem in Norsk biografisk Leksikon (Norwegian)
  • Odd Eidem in Store Norske Leksikon (Norwegian)
personal data
SURNAME Eidem, Odd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valente, Justino (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo , Norway
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1988
Place of death Nesodden , Norway