Elisabeth Eide | |
Birth Date: | 22 July 1950 |
Birth Place: | Bergen, Norway |
Nationality: | Norwegian |
Occupation: | journalist, teacher, novelist |
Elisabeth Eide (born 22 July 1950) is a Norwegian journalist, teacher, novelist and non-fiction writer. She was born in Bergen.
Eide made her novel debut in 1994 with Til Kabul faller . Further novels (crime fiction) are Utviklingens hjul from 1997, Der mørket leker med ilden from 1998, and Skyteskiver from 2000.[1] [2]
She received the Ossietzky Award in 2002.[3]
Eide was an active participant in the Maoist movement in Norway, and was part of a delegation with AKP (m-l) that visited Pol Pot in 1978.[4] She later left the Maoist movement.[5]