Arild Stubhaug
Arild Stubhaug | |
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Born | Naustdal, Norway | 5 May 1948
Nationality | Norwegian |
Alma mater | University of Bergen |
Occupation(s) | Mathematician, poet and biographer |
Spouse | [1] |
Awards |
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Arild Stubhaug (born 25 May 1948) is a Norwegian biographer and poet.[2] He has won several literary awards for his biographies of Norwegian mathematicians.
Early life and education
[edit]Stubhaug was born in Naustdal on 25 May 1948,[3] a son educator Lidvald Stubhaug and nurse Borghild Daltveit.[1] He received a cand.mag degree from the University of Bergen with the subjects mathematics, literature and religion.[3][4]
Literary career
[edit]Stubhaug made his literary debut in 1970 with the poetry collection Utkantane. Further poetry collections are Du ber vatn i hendene from 1973, Eld i sol from 1988, and Lemmata from 2008.[3]
He has written biographies of the mathematicians Sophus Lie, Niels Henrik Abel and Gösta Mittag-Leffler,[3] Jacob Aall, Conrad Nicolai Schwach , and Stein Rokkan.[3] He received the Brage Prize in 1996 for the biography Et foranskutt lyn. Niels Henrik Abel og hans tid,[5] translated into English under the title Niels Henrik Abel and his Times: Called Too Soon by Flames Afar,
He followed up with the 250-year history of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (2010) and biographies of Jacob Aall (2014) and the social scientist Stein Rokkan (2019).[3]
Stubhaug is married to Kari Bøge.[1]
Awards
[edit]- Brage Prize, 1996[5]
- Norsk språkpris , 2001[6]
- Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl, 2008[7]
- Doblougprisen 2010[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Rottem, Øystein (18 June 2024). "Kari Bøge". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ Lauritsen, Vibeke (3 November 2021). "Arild Stubhaug". SNL (in Norwegian Nynorsk). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Arild Stubhaug". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ Stubhaug, Av Arild. "Svar til Nilsen". Prosa (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ^ a b "Tidligere vinnere av Brageprisen" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 10 June 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2008.
- ^ Bolstad, Erik, ed. (11 September 2024). "Norsk språkpris". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ Huvenes, Fred (19 September 2024). "Thorleif Dahls pris". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- 1948 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Norwegian poets
- Norwegian male poets
- People from Naustdal
- University of Bergen alumni
- 20th-century Norwegian male writers
- Norwegian biographers
- 20th-century Norwegian historians
- Norwegian male biographers
- 21st-century Norwegian historians
- Norwegian mathematicians
- Historians of mathematics
- Mathematics writers
- Norwegian writer stubs