Researching Eystein Eggen
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1 people with the Eggen surname? In that year Eggen was ranked number 3578 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Eystein Eggen on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Eystein Eggen and the Eggen Genealogy
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Miscellaneous Eggen Databases
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Some Famous People called Eystein Eggen
Eystein Eggen
Eystein Eggen (5 January 1944 in Oslo – 19 November 2010) was a Norwegian writer. Eggen is from a family with several other contemporary Norwegian writers.
As a novelist, Eggen made his debut with an about the life and death of general Carl Gustav Fleischer, the Norwegian commander in chief at Narvik 1940. He also wrote a portrait of the writer Agnar Mykle, his father-in-law and has written novels with topics from medieval Norway. In 1993 Eggen published The boy from Gimle—the autobiographical story of a Norwegian childhood in a Nazi milieu. As a consequence, two years later the Norwegian war children got an official excuse.Eggen became a State Scholar in 2003. "He is a symbol of an entire generation", the spokesman for the Norwegian Labour Party said in parliament.
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