Arild Stubhaug
Norwegian mathematician, poet and biographer (born 1948)
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Arild Stubhaug (born 25 May 1948) is a Norwegian biographer and poet.[2] He has won several literary awards for his biographies of Norwegian mathematicians.
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| Born | 5 May 1948 Naustdal, Norway |
| Alma mater | University of Bergen |
| Occupations | Mathematician, poet and biographer |
| Spouse | [1] |
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Early life and education
Stubhaug was born in Naustdal Municipality on 25 May 1948,[3] a son educator Lidvald Stubhaug and nurse Borghild Daltveit.[1] He received a cand.mag degree from the University of Bergen with the subjects mathematics, literature and religion.[3][4]
Literary career
Stubhaug made his literary debut in 1970 with the poetry collection Utkantane. Further poetry collections are Du ber vatn i hendene from 1973, Eld i sol from 1988, and Lemmata from 2008.[3]
He has written biographies of the mathematicians Sophus Lie, Niels Henrik Abel and Gösta Mittag-Leffler,[3] Jacob Aall, Conrad Nicolai Schwach, and Stein Rokkan.[3] He received the Brage Prize in 1996 for the biography Et foranskutt lyn. Niels Henrik Abel og hans tid,[5] translated into English under the title Niels Henrik Abel and his Times: Called Too Soon by Flames Afar,
He followed up with the 250-year history of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (2010) and biographies of Jacob Aall (2014) and the social scientist Stein Rokkan (2019).[3]
Awards
- Brage Prize, 1996[5]
- Norsk språkpris, 2001[6]
- Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl, 2008[7]
- Doblougprisen 2010[3]
