Gerd Brantenberg
Gerd Mjøen Brantenberg (born October 27, 1941) is a
feminist
writer.
Biography
Brantenberg was born in
high schools, and she also held positions at the trade union for lectors (Norsk Lektorlag) and the Norwegian Authors' Union
.
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
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.[2]
Since 1982, she has been a writer full-time. She has published 10 novels, 2 plays, 2 translations, and many political songs, and has contributed to numerous anthologies. Her most famous novel is
In the 1970s, Brantenberg was in a lesbian partnership with the Danish writer Vibeke Vasbo who joined her in Oslo in 1974.[6]
She is the cousin of radio and TV entertainer Lars Mjøen.
Awards and honours
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
.
Publications
Novels that have been published in English:
- What Comes Naturally (London, 1986)
- Egalia's Daughters, (Seattle 1986) or The Daughters of Egalia (London 1985)
- The Four Winds (Seattle, 1996).
References
- ^ Lisbeth Nilsen (13 February 2009). "Gerd Brantenberg". Norsk biografisk leksikon (Norwegian biographical encyclopedia) (in Norwegian). Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ Jérome Peugnez (26 November 2021). "Gerd Brantenberg : Biographie et Bibliographie". Zonelivre.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ Thomas Stélandre (30 January 2022). "Gerd Brantenberg, la Comédie «fumaine»". Libération (in French). Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ Geneviève Bridel (5 February 2022). "Tournez la page - Gerd Brantenberg, "Les filles dʹÉgalie" (Ed. Zulma)". RTS (in French). Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ Caroline Montpetit (5 March 2022). "«Les filles d'Égalie»: le pouvoir de la langue". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ Stein Larsen, Jesper (8 July 2014). "Frontkæmper og forfatter". Jyllands-Posten (in Danish). Retrieved 24 May 2017.
External links
- http://skrift.no/brantenberg/ (Biography in Norwegian)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20020224024416/http://www.dagbladet.no/kontekst/15753.html (Biography in Dagbladet, Norwegian Newspaper)