Odd Eidem

{{Short description|Norwegian writer, journalist and literary critic}} {{Use dmy dates | date=April 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Odd Eidem | image = Odd Eidem.jpg | alt = | caption = Odd Eidem, 1961 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date |1913|10|23| df=y}} | birth_place = Kristiania, Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age |1988|6|10|1913|10|23| df=y}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Writer, journalist and literary critic | known_for = | alma_mater = University of Oslo | parents = | awards = {{ubl | Riksmål Society Literature Prize (1960)| Norwegian Booksellers' Prize (1968) | Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (1978) | Cappelen Prize (1980)}} }}

'''Odd Eidem''' (23 October 1913 – 10 June 1988) was a Norwegian writer, journalist and literary critic.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://snl.no/Odd_Eidem |title=Odd Eidem|publisher =Store norske leksikon |author=Erik Bjerck Hagen|accessdate= May 1, 2018}}</ref>

==Biography== He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the eldest of three sons born to Gunnar Kølbel (1890–1963) and Dorothea Serine Eidem (1889–1940). His parents divorced during his youth. He grew up in Hamar and received his ''artium'' in 1931. He earned a master's degree in literature history at the University of Oslo in 1938.

He debuted in 1939 as a fiction author. During the 1930s, he was an active member of the political movement Mot Dag. He worked as a secretary for Nansenhjelpen from 1938 to 1940. After World War II, Eidem became a literary critic at ''Verdens Gang'', where he remained a regular contributor until 1977. From 1955 to 1977, he also wrote theater reviews. He wrote a column for ''Aftenposten'' from 1978 to 1988. His performances on radio can be heard on the CD collection ''Hørøretøret'' from the Gunnar Haugan NRK radio program Hørøret.<ref>{{cite web|url =https://nbl.snl.no/Odd_Eidem|title=Odd Eidem|publisher=Norsk biografisk leksikon|author=Jan E. Hansen|accessdate= May 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url =https://snl.no/Nansenhjelp|title=Nansenhjelp|publisher =Store norske leksikon |author=Tore Pryser|accessdate= May 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.lydbokforlaget.no/fakta-og-dokumentar/humor-og-satire/horeroret|title = Hørerøret|publisher = Lydbokforlaget|accessdate = May 1, 2018|archive-date = 24 May 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180524222211/https://www.lydbokforlaget.no/fakta-og-dokumentar/humor-og-satire/horeroret|url-status = dead}}</ref>

Eidem was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (''Kritikerprisen'') in 1978 for the flaneries, ''Cruise''. He received the Cappelen Prize (''Cappelenprisen'') in 1980.<ref name=nrk>{{cite web |url=http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/kultur/1697341.html |title=Tidligere vinnere av Kritikerprisen |publisher=NRK |year=2002 |language=Norwegian |accessdate=2008-10-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://snl.no/Cappelenprisen|title=Cappelenprisen|publisher=Store norske leksikon |author= Vidar Iversen|accessdate= May 1, 2018}}</ref>

==Selected works== * ''Uten fane'', 1939 * ''Kala'', 1971 * ''Cruise'', 1978 * ''Pieter og jeg'', 1979 * ''Ute på veiene'', 1980 * ''Morgen i Dibonne. Et landsbybilde'', 1982 * ''Arons roser'', 1985

== Awards == * Riksmål Society Literature Prize, 1960 * Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, 1968 * Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, 1978

==References== {{reflist}}

{{s-start}} {{s-ach|aw}} {{s-bef | before = Thorbjørn Egner}} {{s-ttl | title = Recipient of the Cappelen Prize | years = 1980 }} {{s-aft | after = Hans Normann Dahl and<br>Vivian Zahl Olsen}} {{end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eidem, Odd}} Category:1913 births Category:1988 deaths Category:Writers from Oslo Category:Norwegian columnists Category:Norwegian literary critics Category:Norwegian theatre critics Category:Mot Dag Category:20th-century Norwegian journalists