Svein Eirik Fauskevåg
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Svein Eirik Fauskevåg (5 August 1942 – 29 July 2022) was a Norwegian literary historian.
He was born in Harstad. He finished a magister degree in the history of ideas at the University of Oslo in 1969. In 1978 he began a Doctorate of Philosophy degree, defending a thesis concerning Marquis de Sade. From 1981 Fauskevåg was a professor of Romance literature at the University of Trondheim, mainly French.[1] Fauskevåg was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2003.[2]
Fauskevåg mainly published his works in France. Beyond the subjects of his study being French, Sade studies were frowned upon at the University of Oslo in the 1970s.[3] According to Martin Wåhlberg, he, in part due to his homosexuality, was considered an outsider in the 1960s.[3] Fauskevåg, who remained unmarried, was also a convert to Roman Catholicism.[4][5]