Tone Birkeland
Norwegian literary scholar
About Tone Birkeland
Born 1947. Tone Birkeland is a Norwegian literary critic, literary scholar, literary historian, university teacher and man of letters.
Tone Birkeland (born 8 May 1947) is a Norwegian literary scholar who has contributed to research on children's literature and picture books.
Career Born in Bergen on 8 May 1947, Birkeland graduated as cand.philol. from the University of Bergen in 1973. Spending most of her career at , her research has focused on children's literature and picture books.
Her work Norsk barneliteraturhistorie earned her the in 1997, shared with co-authors and . In his literary history from 1998, Øystein Rottem particularly mentions Norsk barneliteraturhistorie as an important source for the treatment of children's literature in his work.
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Norwegian literary scholar
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Tone Birkeland was born on 8 May 1947.
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Tone Birkeland is a literary critic, literary scholar, literary historian, university teacher and man of letters.
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