Eystein Eggen

Eystein Eggen (born 5 January 1944) is a Norwegian writer.

As a novelist Eggen made his debut with a story built on the life and death of general Carl Gustav Fleischer, the Norwegian commander in chief at Narvik 1940. Besides a portrait of the writer Agnar Mykle, his late father-in-law, Eggen has written novels with topics from the Norwegian Middle Ages. Eggen is from a family with several other contemporary Norwegian writers. In 1993 Eggen published "The boy from Gimle" - the story of a Nazi child, where he frankly and movingly tells about growing up in a Nazi milieu. 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 Labour said in parliament.

External links

* [http://home.online.no/~kluwer/bilde2.htm Norwegian Government on Eggen] (in English)
* [http://www.stortinget.no/stid/2001/s011214-01.html Stortinget: Møte fredag den 14. December kl. 10 2001] (in Norwegian)
* [http://home.online.no/~uf-skog/thereconciliation.cfm An interview with Eggen]