Solvejg Eriksen

Solvejg Marie Wexelsen Eriksen (August 9, 1903 – August 10, 1993) was a Norwegian journalist, author, translator, and women's rights activist.

Life Eriksen was born in Karlsøy Municipality in Troms county, Norway, the daughter of the prominent priest, politician, and Riksmål advocate Alfred Eriksen, also known as "the Karlsøy priest" (Karlsøypresten),

Works Books authored 1942: Den ene – og de seks (The One—And the Six) 1942: Tom og hunden hans (Tom and His Dog), illustrated by Georg Winther 1943: Jeg vil til filmen: et gløtt i ord og bilder bak kulissene i norsk film (I Want to Go to the Movies: A Glimpse in Words and Pictures behind the Scenes in Norwegian Film), published under the pseudonym Småen 1945: Hele Norges Lalla i tekst og bilder. Et liv i trofast tjeneste hos Thalia (All of Norway's Lalla in Text and Pictures. A Life of Faithful Service with Thalia), a biography of Lalla Carlsen 1946: Forfengelighetens marked. Mennesker i livets hverdag (The Vanity Market. People in Everyday Life), illustrated by Gunnar Bratlie 1946: En kvinne uten våpen. Skuespill i 3 akter og 7 scenebilder. Et forspill og et etterspill (A Woman without Weapons. A Play in Three Acts and Seven Scenes. A Prelude and an Epilogue) 1949: De stjal vårt liv (They Stole Our Lives) 1976: Brød i himmelen. Historien om Karlsøypresten og hans hustru. Et tidsbilde fra sosialismens første kampår og Det mannsdominerte samfunn (Bread in the Sky. The Story of the Karlsøy Priest and His Wife. A Picture of the Time of Socialism's First Battle Year and Male-Dominated Society) 1978: Sangen om Karina. En tidsaktuell roman om rotløs ungdom (A Song about Karina. A Timely Novel about Rootless Youth) 1980: Skyggedans: en familie i oppløsning (Shadow Dance: A Family in Disintegration) 1981: Sannheten. Fra en modig manns – sogneprest, stortingsmann, dr. phil. Alfred Eriksens – dagbok 1905 (Truth. From a Courageous Man: The Parish Priest, MP Alfred Eriksens, PhD – 1905 Diary) 1982: Veldedighetens ofre og andre historier om mennesker i livets hverdag. En annerledes novellesamling (Victims of Charity and Other Stories of People in Everyday Life. A Different Short Story Collection) 1987: Jeg vil fange en mann. Historien om en moderne Askepott (I Want to Catch a Man. The Story of a Modern Cinderella)

Books translated 1945: Onde øyne søker et barn (Evil Eyes Seek a Child) by Tove Ditlevsen ( 'You Made a Child Hurt', 1941) 1945: Født til gråt (Born to Cry) by Johanne Buchardt (, 1943) 1946: En gjest (A Guest) by Carl Erik Soya (, 1941) 1946: Barndommens gate (Childhood Street) by Tove Ditlevsen (, 1943); reissued by the Norwegian Book Club in 1978 1947: For barnets skyld (For the Sake of a Child) by Tove Ditlevsen (, 1946)

Plays Yrkeskvinner (Business Women), staged at the National Theater in 1940 3 minutters stillhet (Three Minutes of Silence), staged at the Oslo New Theater

Films 1942: Det æ'kke te å tru (screenwriter) 1954: Cecilia (director and screenwriter)