{{Short description|Norwegian writer (1915 –1999)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Eva Scheer | image = Eva Scheer (1).jpg | caption = Scheer in 1981 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date |1915|3|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Oslo, Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age |1999|6|22|1915|3|13|df=y}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | monuments = | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = journalist, literary critic, translator and author | years_active = | employer = | organization = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | television = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = }}
'''Eva Scheer''' (13 March 1915 – 22 June 1999) was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, translator and author.
==Personal life== Scheer was born on 13 March 1915 in Oslo to Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. In 1942, during the German occupation of Norway, several of her family members were deported and eventually murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp, while Scheer managed to flee to Sweden.<ref name=snl/>
==Career== After World War II, Scheer worked as journalist for the newspaper ''Arbeiderbladet''. She made her literary debut in 1948, with the book ''Vi bygger i sand''. She was a co-founder of the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators in 1948, and also worked as literary critic. She was a reporter for ''Arbeiderbladet'' in Palestine and Israel during the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, and her books on this issue include ''Vi møttes i Jerusalem '' from 1951, and ''Israel: dobbelt-løftets land'' from 1967. In 1954 she wrote the children's book ''Teddybjørn på bølgelengde''.<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Eva Scheer |first=Åsmund Borgen |last=Gjerde |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik | editor-link= |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Eva_Scheer |language=Norwegian |accessdate=19 August 2018}}</ref>
Her book ''Posene på gjerdestolpen'' from 1977 contains Jewish fairytales and folklore translated for children.<ref name=rottem2>{{cite book |title=Norges Litteraturhistorie. Etterkrigslitteraturen |editor-first=Tove |editor-last=Storsveen |chapter=Den norske barneitteraturen fram til 1980 |page=599 |first=Tordis |last=Ørjasæter |author-link=Tordis Ørjasæter |volume=2 |publisher=Cappelen |location=Oslo |year=1999 |language=Norwegian |isbn=82-02-16425-7 }}</ref> Her later books include ''Papirbroen: jødisk drøm og virkelighet'' (1979), ''Tre er fedrene, fire mødrene'' (1981), ''En smak av vintreets frukt'' (1982), and ''Hundene gjør ved vanningsstedet'' (1983).<ref name=snl/>
==Death and legacy== Scheer died on 22 June 1999. The book ''Jødiske fortellinger: Fra shtetl til Grünerløkka'' was published in 2015, containing a collection of Jewish stories written down by Scheer. In 2015 she was also part of the exhibition ''Kvinner i jiddisch kultur'' hosted at the Jewish Museum in Oslo.<ref name=snl/>
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