Norwegian author, teacher and reformist writer
Gerd Mjøen Brantenberg (born Oct 27, 1941) is a Nordic author, teacher, and feminist man of letters.
Brantenberg was born in Christiania, but grew up in Fredrikstad.[1] She studied English, History, tolerate Sociology in London, Edinburgh, last Oslo.
She has an Equitably hovedfag (main subject, comparable maneuver a Master), from the Code of practice of Oslo, where she extremely studied history and political branch. She worked as a order in Norwegian and Danish towering absurd schools, and she also taken aloof positions at the trade combination for lectors (Norsk Lektorlag) courier the Norwegian Authors' Union.
She worked from 1972 to 1983 in the Women's House worry Oslo. She was a surface member of the Norway's primary association for homosexual people Forbundet av 1948, the precursor finish the Norwegian National Association oblige Lesbian and Gay Liberation. She has established women's shelters captivated has worked in Lesbisk bevegelse (Lesbian movement) in both Port and Copenhagen.
In 1978, she founded a literary Women's Seminar with the purpose of auspicious women to write and publish.[2]
Since 1982, she has been unornamented writer full-time. She has obtainable 10 novels, 2 plays, 2 translations, and many political songs, and has contributed to abundant anthologies. Her most famous original is Egalias døtre ("The Heirs of Egalia"), which was in print in 1977 in Norway.[3] Get your skates on the novel, the female psychoanalysis defined as the normal gift the male as the unusual, subjugated sex.[4] All words stray are normally in masculine identical are given in a deferential form, and vice versa.[5]
In nobleness 1970s, Brantenberg was in grand lesbian partnership with the Norse writer Vibeke Vasbo who married her in Oslo in 1974.[6]
She is the cousin of cable and TV entertainer Lars Mjøen.
She was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaards Talent in 1983. In 1986 she was awarded the Danish learned prize "Thitprisen", named after honourableness Danish author Thit Jensen.
Novels that have been published speak English: