About Karin Gundersen
Lived 1944 – 2024 (aged 79). Karin Gundersen was a Norwegian translator, professor and literary scholar.
Karin Gundersen (27 August 1944 – 4 June 2024) was a Norwegian literary scholar and translator.
Biography Gundersen was born in Malm, German-occupied Norway on 27 August 1944. A professor of French literature at the University of Oslo, she was also a translator of French literary works. She was awarded the Bastian Prize in 1993, for her translation of Stendhal's novel The Charterhouse of Parma into Norwegian. She received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 2006, for translation of Stendhal's autobiography The Life of Henry Brulard into Norwegian language. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 2006.
Gundersen was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. She died in Oslo on 4 June 2024, at the age of 79.
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Who was Karin Gundersen?
Norwegian translator and professor
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Karin Gundersen was born on 27 August 1944 in Malm.
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Karin Gundersen died on 4 June 2024 in Oslo.
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Karin Gundersen was a translator, professor and literary scholar.
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Karin Gundersen was Norwegian.
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