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About Gunnar Hauk Gjengset
- Gunnar Hauk Gjengset (born May 10, 1946) is a Norwegian philologist and author.Gjengset was arrested in the Soviet Union in January 1970 for demonstrating against the Brezhnev regime.
- Gjengset had traveled to Leningrad in order to distribute leaflets supporting the release of author Yuri Galanskov and war-hero Pyotr Grigorenko, both known dissidents.
- In the trial that followed, Gjengset was sentenced to one year of imprisonment, but was freed after one month of internment due to international pressure.
- He later wrote the book, Under jernteppet (Behind The Iron Curtain) about the experience.Gjengset has a Ph.D.
- in comparative literature from Umeå University in Sweden, with a dissertation on the Sami author, Matti Aikio (Matti Aikio - verk og virke, Umeå 2011).
- Gjengset has written several books, including a biography of Gustav Vigeland.He is also an aphorist with a daily column, Dagens sukk (Sigh of the Day) in the national Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen, under the pseudonym, Hauk, which is also a middle name.
- The column had earlier appeared in the Trondheim, Norway, newspaper Adresseavisen for more than 20 years.In the book, Avoid the Void (2013), produced by the New York-based publisher, Morgan James Publishers, Gjengset discusses alcoholism.Several of Gjengset's plays have been presented at Det Ã…pne Teater (The Open Theater) in Oslo.
- Together with Harald Gaski he has written Johan Turi, a play about the author, Johan Turi, who wrote the world’s first fictional book in a Sámi language. This play was staged on Det Norske Teater in Oslo, and opened on the 6th of September 2017.
- In October 2019, the play will be part of Norway's official presentation as guest of honor at this year's international book fair in Frankfurt, Germany.
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