Vigdis Moe Skarstein | |
|---|---|
 Skarstein in 2006 | |
| 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. Vigdís is the first woman in the world to be democratically elected as president. Having served as president of Iceland for 16 years, she is the longest-serving elected female head of state in history. She is the first female president in Icelandic history, while later being followed by the current president, Halla Tómasdóttir as the second female president. Vigdís is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and a member of the Club of Madrid.
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.
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 best known for English translations of Long Live the Post Horn (2012) and Will and Testament. She was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for Will and Testament, which had been recently translated into English. A few years later, in 2023, her novel Is Mother Dead (2020), which was translated in 2022, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize.
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. Considered a leading figure of his field, Christie is one of two Norwegian social scientists covered in the book 50 Key Thinkers in Criminology, alongside sociologist Thomas Mathiesen.
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 who competes in pararowing and para cross-country skiing. She is a Paralympic champion and silver medallist, six-time world champion and four-time European champion in single sculls. Skarstein has won a total of twelve World Championships medals, eight in rowing and four in cross-country skiing, and holds the world best time in women's single sculls.
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 or Vigdís is a Scandinavian and Icelandic feminine given name.
Paul Einar Vatne was a Norwegian journalist, editor and non-fiction writer.
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