Eldrid Lunden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Eldrid Lunden

Norwegian poet and creative writing professor

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1940

Place of Birth: Naustdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Profession: writer, poet, author, university teacher

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Eldrid Lunden (born 5 October 1940) is a Norwegian poet, and 1996 became Norway's first professor in creative writing, at Telemark University College.
She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1989, and the Brage Prize honorary award in 2000.Lunden belonged to the circle surrounding the modernist literary magazine Profil. She was born in Naustdal and took her cand.philol.
degree at the University of Oslo.
She is a sister of Kåre Lunden.Lunden married 1994 the Swedish literary scholar and poet Reidar Ekner and lived with him in Telemark till he died 2014.