Karin Gundersen | |
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Born | 1944 (age 79–80) |
Nationality | Norwegian |
Occupation(s) | University professor and translator |
Employer | University of Oslo |
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Karin Gundersen (born 1944) is a Norwegian literary scholar and translator. A professor of French literature at the University of Oslo, she is also a translator of French literary works.[1] She was awarded the Bastian Prize in 1993, for her translation of Stendhal's novel The Charterhouse of Parma into Norwegian.[2] She received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 2006, for translation of Stendhal's autobiography The Life of Henry Brulard into Norwegian langue.[3] She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 2006.[4]
She is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters[5] and the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.