Career

Terje Stigen was born on Magerøya

Magerøya

Magerøya is an island in Finnmark county in the extreme north of Norway, in the community of Nordkapp. The island features a bleak, barren tundra-landscape devoid of any trees , with steep cliff faces on the coast and dramatic mountainscapes in the interior. It has an area of...

 in Finnmark

Finnmark

or Finnmárku is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast.The county was formerly known as Finmarkens...

, Norway but spent part of his childhood in Tromsø

Tromsø

Tromsø is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.Tromsø city is the ninth largest urban area in Norway by population, and the seventh largest city in Norway by population...

. After his final exams at Nordstrand

Nordstrand, Norway

Nordstrand is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway.The borough is located in the southern part of the city and is the second most populated district of Oslo with over 40,000 inhabitants...

 school in Aker

Aker, Norway

Aker is a former municipality in Akershus, which lends its name to a municipality and a county in Norway. The name originally belonged to a farm which was located near the current Old Aker Church...

 during 1941, he studied philology at the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

, cand.philol. English majors in 1947.)

He wrote 44 novels and short story collections, almost a new year, besides radio plays and numerous articles. Besides novels and short story collections, he wrote a series of radio plays for Radioteatret

Radioteatret

Radioteatret is a department of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation which produces audio plays for radio broadcasting. It was established in 1927.-Directors:...

. Stigen debuted as an author in 1950 with publication of his novel To døgn. He wrote numerous books, mostly novels, but also a number of lectures and radio drama

Radio drama

Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...

s. He wrote in Bokmål

Bokmål

Bokmål is one of two official Norwegian written standard languages, the other being Nynorsk. Bokmål is used by 85–90% of the population in Norway, and is the standard most commonly taught to foreign students of the Norwegian language....

, the more common of the two Norwegian languages. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature

Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature

The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature is a Norwegian learned body on matters pertaining to the Dano-Norwegian language. Its primary role is regulating the written standard known as Riksmål ....

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Novels

• 1950 To døgn
• 1952 Skygger på mitt hjerte
• 1953 Nøkkel til ukjent rom
• 1954 Før solnedgang
• 1956 Vindstille underveis
• 1957 Frode budbæreren
• 1958 Åsmund Armodsons saga
• 1959 Stjerneøy
• 1960 Elskere
• 1962 Kjærlighet
• 1964 Til ytterste skjær
• 1965 Krystallstjernen
• 1966 Timer i grenseland
• 1967 Det flyktige hjerte
• 1968 De tente lys
• 1969 Det siste paradiset
• 1970 Besettelse
• 1971 Kains merke
• 1972 Min Marion
• 1973 Skumsøylene
• 1975 Peter Johannes Lookhas
• 1975 De faste lys
• 1976 Forliset
• 1977 Avikfjord
• 1978 Huset og byen
• 1979 Rekviem over en sommer
• 1980 Øgler i Avikfjord
• 1981 Blindgjengeren
• 1983 Bak våre masker
• 1984 Baldershavn
• 1986 Ved foten av kunnskapens tre
• 1987 Katedralen
• 1989 Krigen
• 1988 Monolitten
• 1990 Treskjæreren Johannes
• 1991 Fyrholmen
• 1995 Allegretto
• 1996 Alt er slik det er

Other publications

• 1953 Vindstille underveis, short story cycle
• 1953 Norge, text by Terje Stigen, 28 color photographs and 40 black-and-white photos by Bert Boger (Dreyer, Oslo)
• 1963 Glasskulen, novella collection
• 1972 Norsk rapsodi: epistler
• 1974 Den røde sommerfugl og 5 andre hørespill radio drama
• 1975 De faste lys: norsk reise, travel description
• 1977 En hekto kandis og andre historier
• 1982 Assortiment: fortellinger

Drama

• 1957 Sommernatt, radio drama broadcast by Radioteatret
  Radioteatret
  Radioteatret is a department of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation which produces audio plays for radio broadcasting. It was established in 1927.-Directors:...
  
  
• 1958 Strømmen, radio drama
• 1968 Den røde sommerfugl, radio drama broadcast by Radioteatret
• 1970 Nødvendigheten, radio drama broadcast by Radioteatret
• 1970 Batteriet, radio drama broadcast by Radioteatret
• 1970 Fridagen, video drama broadcast by Fjernsynsteatret
  Fjernsynsteatret
  Fjernsynsteatret was a department of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation which produced plays for television broadcasting. It opened in 1960 , and operated until 1990, when a major reorganisation of NRK took place.Its first leader was Arild Brinchmann, who headed the theatre from its start...
  
  

Awards

• 1954 – Gyldendal's Endowment
  Gyldendal's Endowment
  Gyldendal's Endowment was a literature prize which was awarded in the period 1934–1995 by the Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. The prize was awarded to significant authors, regardless of which publisher the author was associated with...
  
  
• 1957 – Riksmål Society Literature Prize
  Riksmål Society Literature Prize
  The Riksmål Society Literature Prize is awarded annually by the Riksmålsforbundet for the outstanding publication in riksmål...
  
  
• 1963 – Norwegian Booksellers' Prize
  Norwegian Booksellers' Prize
  The Norwegian Booksellers' Prize is a literature prize was awarded by the Norwegian Booksellers Association. It was initiated in 1948, then did not return until 1961...
  
  
• 1987 – Nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize

Films based on Terje Stigens novels

• 1975 Min Marion, starring Nils R. Müller
  Nils R. Müller
  Nils R. Müller was a Norwegian film director.He was born in Shanghai. His debut was Så møtes vi imorgen , and he broke through with the comedy Vi gifter oss . Later films include Kvinnens plass , Det store varpet , Tonny , Elskere and Broder Gabrielsen...
  
  
• 1963 Elskere, starring Nils R. Müller