Karin Gundersen

Norwegian literary scholar and translator (1944–2024)

Bastian Prize (1993)
Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (2006)
Dobloug Prize (2006)

Karin Gundersen (27 August 1944 – 4 June 2024) was a Norwegian literary scholar and translator.

Biography

Gundersen was born in Malm, German-occupied Norway on 27 August 1944.^[1] A professor of French literature at the University of Oslo, she was also a translator of French literary works.^[2] She was awarded the Bastian Prize in 1993, for her translation of Stendhal's novel The Charterhouse of Parma into Norwegian.^[3] She received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 2006, for translation of Stendhal's autobiography The Life of Henry Brulard into Norwegian language.^[4] She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 2006.^[5]

Gundersen was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters^[6] and the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. She died in Oslo on 4 June 2024, at the age of 79.^[7]

References

^ Karin Gundersen (in Norwegian)
^ Holt, Ole Øyvind Sand (14 November 2014). "De oversette". DNMagasinet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 21 October 2019.
^ Bolstad, Erik (ed.). "Bastianprisen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
^ Bolstad, Erik (ed.). "Kritikerprisen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
^ Bolstad, Erik (ed.). "Doblougprisen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
^ "Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi. Medlemmer" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
^ Karin Gundersen er død (in Norwegian)