Eystein Eggen
Eystein Eggen (born
5 January 1944) is a
Norwegian writer.
As a novelist Eggen made his debut with a story built on the life and death of general
Carl Gustav Fleischer, the Norwegian commander in chief at
Narvik 1940. Besides a portrait of the writer
Agnar Mykle, his late father-in-law, Eggen has written novels with topics from the Norwegian Middle Ages. Eggen is from a family with several other contemporary Norwegian writers. In
1993 Eggen published
The boy from Gimle - the story of a
Nazi child, where he frankly and movingly tells about growing up in a Nazi milieu. Two years later the norwegian
war children got an official excuse. Eggen became a State Scholar in
2003. "He is a symbol of an entire generation", the spokesman for Labour said in parliament.
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Norwegian Government on Eggen (in English)
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Stortinget: Møte fredag den 14. desember kl. 10 2001 (in Norwegian)
