Solvejg Eriksen


Solvejg Marie Wexelsen Eriksen was a Norwegian journalist, author, translator, and women's rights activist.

Life

Eriksen was born in Karlsøy Municipality in Troms county, Norway, the daughter of the prominent priest, politician, and Riksmål advocate Alfred Eriksen, also known as "the Karlsøy priest", and his wife Sigrid Marie née Wexelsen. She was the niece of the painter and film director Adam Eriksen. In the 1930s, Eriksen worked as a journalist for the newspaper Tidens Tegn, and after the Second World War she wrote for the newspaper Morgenposten. She was also a film reviewer. She wrote and translated several books from various genres, and she authored plays for the stage and screenplays. In 1951 she directed and wrote the screenplay for the film Cecilia, which involves a lesbian relationship.
Solvejg Eriksen established the Solvejg Wexelsen Eriksen Endowment for talented female writers that write about women's issues.

Works

Books authored

  • 1942: Den ene – og de seks
  • 1942: Tom og hunden hans, illustrated by Georg Winther
  • 1943: Jeg vil til filmen: et gløtt i ord og bilder bak kulissene i norsk film, published under the pseudonym Småen
  • 1945: Hele Norges Lalla i tekst og bilder. Et liv i trofast tjeneste hos Thalia, a biography of Lalla Carlsen
  • 1946: Forfengelighetens marked. Mennesker i livets hverdag, illustrated by Gunnar Bratlie
  • 1946: En kvinne uten våpen. Skuespill i 3 akter og 7 scenebilder. Et forspill og et etterspill
  • 1949: De stjal vårt liv
  • 1976: Brød i himmelen. Historien om Karlsøypresten og hans hustru. Et tidsbilde fra sosialismens første kampår og Det mannsdominerte samfunn
  • 1978: Sangen om Karina. En tidsaktuell roman om rotløs ungdom
  • 1980: Skyggedans: en familie i oppløsning
  • 1981: Sannheten. Fra en modig manns – sogneprest, stortingsmann, dr. phil. Alfred Eriksens – dagbok 1905
  • 1982: Veldedighetens ofre og andre historier om mennesker i livets hverdag. En annerledes novellesamling
  • 1987: ''Jeg vil fange en mann. Historien om en moderne Askepott''

    Books translated

  • 1945: Onde øyne søker et barn by Tove Ditlevsen
  • 1945: Født til gråt by Johanne Buchardt
  • 1946: En gjest by Carl Erik Soya
  • 1946: Barndommens gate by Tove Ditlevsen ; reissued by the Norwegian Book Club in 1978
  • 1947: For barnets skyld by Tove Ditlevsen

    Plays

  • Yrkeskvinner, staged at the National Theater in 1940
  • 3 minutters stillhet, staged at the Oslo New Theater

    Films

  • 1942: Det æ'kke te å tru
  • 1954: ''Cecilia''