Elisabeth Eide | |
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Born |
Bergen, Norway | 22 July 1950
Nationality | Norwegian |
Occupation(s) | journalist, teacher, novelist |
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Elisabeth Eide (born 22 July 1950) is a Norwegian journalist, teacher, novelist and non-fiction writer. She was born in Bergen.
Eide made her novel debut in 1994 with Til Kabul faller . Further novels (crime fiction) are Utviklingens hjul from 1997, Der mørket leker med ilden from 1998, and Skyteskiver from 2000. [1] [2]
She received the Ossietzky Award in 2002. [3]
Eide was an active participant in the Maoist movement in Norway, and was part of a delegation with AKP (m-l) that visited Pol Pot in 1978. [4] She later left the Maoist movement. [5]