{{Short description|Danish writer and political activist}} {{Infobox person | name = Inge Eriksen | image = Inge Eriksen 2002.jpg | caption = Eriksen in 2002 | birth_name = Inge Marie Eriksen | birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|10|22|df=y}} | birth_place = Skørping, Denmark | death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|03|13|1935|10|22|df=y}} | death_place = Aalborg, Denmark | occupation = Writer<br>Political activist | years_active = 1960s–2009 }} '''Inge Marie Eriksen''' (22 October 1935 – 13 March 2015) was a Danish writer and political activist. She became involved in Danish public debate in the 1960s and helped to the left-wing Left Socialists political party establish that she left in 1969. Eriksen began her writing career in 1975 and won various awards for her work from her first book that was published in 1975 and her final one in 2009. Her works include novels such as the science fiction series ''Rummet uden tid, 1–4'' and ''Sommerfugelens vinge''.
==Early life and education== Eriksen was born in Skørping, Denmark on 22 October 1935.<ref name=SNLBio>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Rottem|first=Øystein|title=Inge Eriksen|url=https://snl.no/Inge_Eriksen|encyclopedia=Great Norwegian Encyclopedia|language=no|date=30 November 2021|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-date=16 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816110414/https://snl.no/Inge_Eriksen|url-status=live}}</ref> She was the daughter of the Norwegian railway official Erik Eriksen and the nurse Nanna Henriette Jungersen.<ref name=KVINFOEntry>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Tang|first=Katja|title=Inge Eriksen (1935–2015), Eriksen, Inge Marie|url=https://www.kvinfo.dk/side/170/bio/814/|encyclopedia=Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon|language=da|date=2003|access-date=25 September 2022|via=KVINFO|archive-date=20 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620110131/https://www.kvinfo.dk/side/170/bio/814/|url-status=live}}</ref> Eriksen spent her early childhood in Southern Jutland,<ref name=HistoryNordicWomenBio>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Inge Eriksen – 1935–2015: Danmark|trans-title=Inge Eriksen – 1935–2015: Denmark|url=https://nordicwomensliterature.net/da/writers/eriksen-inge-2/|encyclopedia=The History of Nordic Women's Literature|date=2012|language=da|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925130623/https://nordicwomensliterature.net/da/writers/eriksen-inge-2/|url-status=live}}</ref> before she, her brother and mother relocated to Ålborg upon the death of her father in a German concentration camp in 1945.<ref name=KVINFOEntry/><ref name=HistoryNordicWomenBio/> In 1957, she became a student of {{ill|Aalborg City Gymnasium|lt=Aalborg Studenterkursus|da|Aalborg City Gymnasium}} and then read comparative literature at Aarhus University until 1962 when she moved to Copenhagen. Eriksen became a teacher in the Gladsakse primary school from 1973 to 1975 after earning a degree at {{ill|Copenhagen Day and Evening Seminary|da|Københavns Dag- og Aftenseminarium}} until she became a full-time writer.<ref name=KVINFOEntry/><ref name=HistoryNordicWomenBio/> She had also worked at a newspaper employee and in a hotel, organic farming, antique shop, dairy and at a city nursery.<ref name=LeksikonEntry/>
==Career== She became involved in public debate in the 1960s.<ref name=AltingetObit>{{cite news|last=Mogensen|first=Pernille|title=Dødsfald: Forfatter Inge Eriksen (79)|trans-title=Death: Author Inge Eriksen (79)|url=https://www.altinget.dk/artikel/doedsfald-forfatter-inge-eriksen-79|publisher=Altinget.dk|language=da|date=16 March 2015|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925130623/https://www.altinget.dk/artikel/doedsfald-forfatter-inge-eriksen-79|url-status=live}}</ref> Eriksen helped to establish the left-wing Left Socialists political party in 1967 and became a member of its primary board in mid-1968 before being employed in its office that same year.<ref name=TV2Obit>{{cite news|title=Forfatteren Inge Eriksen er død, 79 år|trans-title=The author Inge Eriksen has died, aged 79|url=https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2015-03-14-forfatteren-inge-eriksen-er-doed-79-aar|publisher=TV 2|agency=Ritzau|language=da|date=14 March 2015|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925130624/https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2015-03-14-forfatteren-inge-eriksen-er-doed-79-aar|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=LeksikonEntry/> In 1969, she resigned from the party,<ref name=AltingetObit/> due to the Leninist influence in the party and ceased left-wing political activism in 1972.<ref name=LeksikonEntry>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Jensen|first=Albert|title=Eriksen, Inge|url=https://leksikon.org/art.php?n=699|encyclopedia={{ill|Leksikon for det 21. århundrede|da|Leksikon for det 21. århundrede|nn|Leksikon for det 21. århundrede|no|Leksikon for det 21. århundrede}}|language=da|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-date=17 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017072014/https://leksikon.org/art.php?n=699|url-status=live}}</ref> Eriksen's first book, the gender-political work ''Kællinger i Danmark'', co-written with the film director and painter Jytte Rex was published in 1975 after the two held the ''Drømmen og den rasende latte'' exhibition the previous year.<ref name=TV2Obit/><ref name=LitteratursidenEntry>{{cite web|title=Inge Eriksen|url=https://litteratursiden.dk/forfattere/inge-eriksen|publisher={{Ill|Litteratursiden.dk|dk|Litteratursiden.dk}}|language=da|access-date=25 September 2022}}</ref> The following year, she authored the two-volume novel ''Victoria og verdensrevolutionen''.<ref name=TV2Obit/><ref name=DSDEntry>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Østergaard|first=Anders|title=Inge Eriksen|url=https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Inge_Eriksen|encyclopedia=Den Store Danske Encyklopædi|language=da|date=31 March 2021|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-date=22 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422051637/https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Inge_Eriksen|url-status=live}}</ref> This was followed by Eriksen's next novel ''Fugletræet'' about the contemporary division of love and work in 1979,<ref name=HistoryNordicWomenBio/> and made her debut as a playwright with the futuristic horror ''Vinden er ikke til salg'' a year later.<ref name=TV2Obit/>
In 1981, she published the historical novel ''Silkehavet'' about the bourgeois revolution.<ref name=SNLBio/> Eriksen wrote the science fiction series ''Rummet uden tid, 1–4'' that includes the books ''Luderen fra Gomorra'' (1983), ''Nord for tiden'' in 1985, ''Dinosaurernes morgen'' in 1986 and ''Paradismaskinen'' in 1989, which were published between 1983 and 1989.<ref name=SNLBio/><ref name=DSDEntry/> In 1992, she wrote the social novel ''Hjertets fifth kammer'',<ref name=SNLBio/> and ''Hertuginden'' three years later; both novels were focused on people who lived through the Second World War and hoping to continue her livelihoods.<ref name=KVINFOEntry/> Eriksen went on to author the novel series ''Sommerfugelens vinge'' from 1997 to 2001 that provided a contemporary historical analysis of the social development of the people of Europe at the conclusion of the 1990s.<ref name=SNLBio/><ref name=DSDEntry/> These books were ''Tørvegraverne'' in 1997, ''De rumænske bøfler'' in 1999 and ''Vinterhaven'' in 2001.<ref name=SNLBio/> She went on to publish the political-psychological novel realism novel ''Citrontræet'' in 2003,<ref name=DSDEntry/> the social realism novel ''En kvinde med hat'' in 2005,<ref name=SNLBio/> and ''Blues for en lyserød sko'' in 2007.<ref name=DSDEntry/> Eriksen wrote her memoirs ''Brød og roser'' in 2009,<ref name=DSDEntry/> and she also worked as a freelance writer and magazine editor.<ref name=HistoryNordicWomenBio/> She was a member of the Social Democrats from the late 1980s,<ref name=LeksikonEntry/> and died in Aalborg, Denmark on 13 March 2015.<ref name=SNLBio/>
==Awards== Eriksen was the recipient of several literature awards.<ref name=AltingetObit/> In 1976, she was awarded the Otto Benzons Prize,<ref name=KVINFOEntry/> the SFC Prize in 1986,<ref name=DI2015>{{cite news|title=Forfatteren Inge Eriksen er død|trans-title=The author Inge Eriksen has died|url=https://www.information.dk/kultur/2015/03/forfatteren-inge-eriksen-doed|work=Dagbladet Information|language=da|date=14 March 2015|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-date=9 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109100912/https://www.information.dk/kultur/2015/03/forfatteren-inge-eriksen-doed|url-status=live}}</ref> the {{ill|Adam Oehlenschläger-Legatet|no|Adam Oehlenschläger legatet}} in 1987,<ref name=KVINFOEntry/> the {{ill|Georg Brandes Award|da|Georg Brandes-Prisen|de|Georg-Brandes-Preis|no|Georg Brandes-Prisen|sv|Georg Brandes-priset}} in 1994,<ref name=LitteratursidenEntry/> HK's Kunstnerpris in 1996,<ref name=KVINFOEntry/> the Martin Andersen Nexø Prize in 1999 and the Otto Gelsted Prize in 2001.<ref name=DI2015/>
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==External links== * {{Official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20040614105506/http://www.inge-eriksen.com/}} * {{IMDb name}}
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