Biography:Arild Stubhaug

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Arild Stubhaug
File:Arild Stubhaug.jpg
Born (1948-05-05) 5 May 1948 (age 78)
Naustdal, Norway
NationalityNorwegian
Alma materUniversity of Bergen
OccupationMathematician, poet and biographer
Spouse(s)
Kari Bøge (m. 1979)
[1]
Awards
  • Brage Prize (1996)
  • Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl (2008)
  • Dobloug Prize (2010)

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

Stubhaug was born in Naustdal Municipality 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

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 (no), 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

  • Brage Prize, 1996[5]
  • Norsk språkpris (no), 2001[6]
  • Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl, 2008[7]
  • Doblougprisen 2010[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rottem, Øystein (18 June 2024). "Kari Bøge". in Helle, Knut (in Norwegian). Norsk biografisk leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. https://nbl.snl.no/Kari_Bøge. Retrieved 19 September 2024. 
  2. Lauritsen, Vibeke (3 November 2021). "Arild Stubhaug" (in nn). SNL. https://snl.no/Arild_Stubhaug. Retrieved 6 September 2022. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Godal, Anne Marit, ed. "Arild Stubhaug" (in no). Store norske leksikon. Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. http://www.snl.no/Arild_Stubhaug. Retrieved 16 December 2014. 
  4. Stubhaug, Av Arild. "Svar til Nilsen" (in nb). https://prosa.no/debatt/svar-til-nilsen/. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Tidligere vinnere av Brageprisen" (in no). http://www.brageprisen.no/tekster/tidligere.shtml. 
  6. Bolstad, Erik, ed (11 September 2024). "Norsk språkpris" (in no). Store norske leksikon. Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. https://snl.no/Norsk_språkpris. Retrieved 19 September 2024. 
  7. Huvenes, Fred (19 September 2024). "Thorleif Dahls pris". in Bolstad, Erik (in no). Store norske leksikon. Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. https://snl.no/Thorleif_Dahls_pris. Retrieved 19 September 2024. 

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