Eystein Eggen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eystein Eggen

Norwegian writer

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1944

Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway

Date of Death: 19-Nov-2010

Profession: sociologist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Eystein Eggen (5 January 1944 in Oslo – 19 November 2010) was a Norwegian writer.
Eggen is from a family with several other contemporary Norwegian writers. As a novelist, Eggen made his debut with an about the life and death of general Carl Gustav Fleischer, the Norwegian commander in chief at Narvik 1940.
He also wrote a portrait of the writer Agnar Mykle, his father-in-law and has written novels with topics from medieval Norway.
In 1993 Eggen published The boy from Gimle—the autobiographical story of a Norwegian childhood in a Nazi milieu.
As a consequence, 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 the Norwegian Labour Party said in parliament.