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Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Gerd Brantenberg
- Gerd Mjøen Brantenberg (born October 27, 1941) is a Norwegian author, teacher, and feminist writer.
- She is also the cousin of radio and TV entertainer Lars Mjøen. Her most famous novel is Egalias døtre ("The Daughters of Egalia"), which was published in 1977 in Norway.
- In the novel the female is defined as the normal and the male as the abnormal, subjugated sex.
- All words that are normally in masculine form are given in a feminine form, and vice versa. Brantenberg was born in Oslo, but grew up in Fredrikstad.
- She studied English, History, and Sociology in London, Edinburgh, and Oslo.
- She has an English hovedfag (main subject, comparable to a Master), from the University of Oslo, where she also studied history and political science.
- She worked as a lector in Norwegian and Danish high schools, and she also held positions at the trade union for lectors (Norsk Lektorlag) and the Norwegian Authors' Union.
- Since 1982 she has been a writer full-time. She worked from 1972 to 1983 in the Women's House in Oslo.
- She was a board member of the Norway's first association for homosexual people Forbundet av 1948, the precursor to the Norwegian National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation.
- She has established women's shelters and has worked in Lesbisk bevegelse (Lesbian movement) in both Oslo and Copenhagen.
- In 1978 she founded a literary Women's Forum with the purpose of encouraging women to write and publish.
- She has published 10 novels, 2 plays, 2 translations, and many political songs, and has contributed to numerous anthologies. She was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1983.
- In 1986 she was awarded the Danish literary prize "Thitprisen", named after the Danish author Thit Jensen. In the 1970s, Brantenberg enjoyed a lesbian partnership with the Danish writer Vibeke Vasbo who joined her in Oslo in 1974.
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