Endre Lund Eriksen | |
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| Born | 10 February 1977 Bodø, Norway |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Period | 2002–present |
| Genre | Children's books, novels |
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Endre Lund Eriksen (born 10 February 1977) [1] is a Norwegian author and politician. [2] [3] [4] [5]
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Lund Eriksen was active in Socialist Youth in his teenage years, and as a member of the Norwegian Socialist Left Party (SV) in Nordland, Eriksen was a deputy in the Storting Parliament from 1997 to 2001. [6] [1] In March 2015 he was elected to the SV central board with a special responsibility to follow up on the project "Yes to Northern Norway." [7]
He made his book debut as an author in 2002, with the children's book Pitbull-Terje går amok (lit.Pitbull-Terje runs amok ). The book received the Kulturdepartementets priser for barne- og ungdomslitteratur, [8] [9] and was made into a film, Pitbullterje (2005), with manuscript by Lund Eriksen. The film won the 2006 Amanda Award for Best Children and Youth Film. [10] [11] [12]
Lund Eriksen has written three more books about Pitbull-Terje: Pitbull-Terje og kampen mot barnevernet (Pitbull-Terje and the fight against the Child Welfare service) (2006), [13] [14] that won the 2006 Arks barnebokpris, [15] Pitbull-Terje blir ond (Pitbull-Terje turns evil) (2007), [16] that won the 2008 UPrisen, [17] and Pitbull-Terje på sporet av den tapte far (Pitbull-Terje and the hunt for the lost father) (2010). [18]
Lund Eriksen has received several awards for his books, [19] [20] that have been translated to 11 languages including Bulgarian, [21] Danish, [22] Dutch, [23] French, [24] German, [25] Sami, [26] and Swedish. [27]
