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| Born | 24 December 1946 Levanger, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Occupation | librarian |
Vigdis Moe Skarstein (born 24 December 1946) is a Norwegian librarian. She was born in Levanger.
She was appointed director of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 1998 to 2004. She served as director of the National Library of Norway from 2004 to 2014. From 2001 to 2009 she chaired the Arts Council Norway. [1]
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is an Icelandic politician who served as the fourth president of Iceland from 1980 to 1996. She was the world's first woman who was democratically elected as president. With a presidency of exactly sixteen years, she also remains longest-serving elected female head of state of any country to date. Currently, she is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, and a member of the Club of Madrid. She is also to-date Iceland's only female president.
Rune Skarstein is a Norwegian radical economist employed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Skarstein was born on 7 April 1940 in the village of Olden in Nordfjord in Western Norway.
The Arts Council Norway is the official arts council for Norway.
Christine Guldbrandsen is a singer who is best known internationally for being the Norwegian entrant in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. She has released three albums in Scandinavia: Surfing in the Air, Moments, and Christine. A new album, Colors, was released on 8 April 2011. She sings mainly in Norwegian, Danish and English.
Vigdis Hårsaker, is a Norwegian handball player, who currently plays club handball for Byåsen IL.
Vigdis Karen Giltun is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party.
Vigdis Hjorth is a Norwegian novelist. She was long listed for the National Book Award in 2021.
Events in the year 1989 in Norway.
Events in the year 1946 in Norway.
Inger-Lise Skarstein, née Haug is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.
Jakob Sæthre Skarstein was a Norwegian journalist and radio presenter/personality.
Nils Christie was a Norwegian sociologist and criminologist. He was a professor of criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.
Edith Carlmar was a Norwegian actress and Norway's first female film director. She is known for films such as Aldri annet enn bråk (1954), Fjols til fjells (1957), and Ung flukt. Her 1949 film, Døden er et kjærtegn, is considered to be Norway's first film noir. The last film she directed, Ung flukt, introduced Liv Ullmann, Norway's most famous actor internationally, to the silver screen.
Asbjørn Skarstein was a Norwegian civil servant and diplomat.
Vigdis Ystad was a Norwegian literary historian.
Kjersti Horn is a Norwegian theater director and storyboard artist, the daughter of scenographer Per Kristian Horn and the actor, theater director and politician for the Norwegian Labour Party (AP), Ellen Horn, partner with Sound designer and composer Erik Hedin, and half sister of Jazz singer and actor Emilie Stoesen Christensen. She was born with the bone disease "spondylo-epyphyfyseal-dysplasi".
Birgit Lovise Røkkum Skarstein is a Norwegian Paralympic athlete and social entrepreneur. She has 11 World Championship medals and is the reigning World Champion and Paralympic champion in the rowing class PR1Wx, where she also holds the world record.
Norway sent competitors to the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. People competed in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, para-snowboarding, sledge hockey and wheelchair curling.
Skarstein is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Vigdis is a Norwegian film from 1943 directed by Helge Lunde. It is based on the novel Vigdis og hennes barns fedre, which was published by the lawyer Albert Wiesener in 1931 under the pseudonym Frantz Ferdinand.
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