Jorunn Hareide (born 15 September 1940) is a Norwegian historian of literature.
She was born in Skien. She took her dr.philos. degree in 1980 and became professor at the University of Trondheim in 1983. In 1993 she moved to the University of Oslo. [1] She is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. [2]
This is a list of her most notable works: [1]
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