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About Nina Witoszek
- Nina Witoszek (born 15 July 1954) is a Polish-born Norwegian cultural historian, writer, public debater and a Research Professor and Research Director at the University of Oslo's Centre for Development and the Environment.
- She has also been a Visiting Professor at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.Witoszek was born in Poland and grew up in Kraków; as a student she was part of a dissident group, and in 1983 she fled to Norway.
- In the 'nineties she moved to Ireland and co-authored with partner Pat Sheeran, under the pseudonymn Nina FitzPatrick, a number of novels, short stories and, under their own names, a study of Irish traditions of death.
- After Sheeran's death in 2001 she returned to Norway.
- In 2005 she received the Fritt Ord Award for articulating and communicating central and eastern European experiences in Norwegian public debate.
- She is also known for her work on the Ecosophy of Arne Næss and modern Scandinavian cultural identities.
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