About Hans H. Skei
Born 1945. Hans H. Skei is a Norwegian translator, university teacher and literary scholar.
Hans Hanssen Skei (born 20 August 1945) is a Norwegian editor and writer.
He was born in Dønna, and graduated as Ph.D. with the treatise "The novelist as short story writer : a study of William Faulkner's short stories with special emphasis on the period 1928-1932" at the University of Oslo. He has been the editor-in-chief of Nordisk Tidskrift since 2002. Skei has provided a large amount of literary criticism on the works of William Faulkner, and has also translated some of his books.
He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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Who is Hans H. Skei?
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Hans H. Skei was born on 20 August 1945.
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Hans H. Skei is a translator, university teacher and literary scholar.
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Hans H. Skei is Norwegian.
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