Janne Stigen Drangsholt
Janne Stigen Drangsholt (born 1974) is a Norwegian philologist and novelist.
She grew up in Sandnes. As a philologist, she is a professor of English at the University of Stavanger since 2019.[1][2]
More known as a novelist, she made her literary debut with Humlefangeren, published in 2011 on Tiden Norsk Forlag. She then started the series about professor and mother Ingrid Winter, also released on Tiden, initially with Ingrid Winters makeløse mismot (2015), Winter i verdens rikeste land (2016) and Winterkrigen (2018). The trilogy was expanded with Winterferie (2023).[3][4] Writing for Store norske leksikon, Jakob Lothe characterizes her novels about Ingrid Winter as campus novels in the vein of Kingsley Amis.[5]
Drangsholt was invited to NRK P1 where she co-hosted the Janne og Jostein-show. She also summarized literary classics in 4 minutes in the programme Utakt[2] and published book with brief introductions to classics: Fra Shakespeare til Knausgård: 66 klassikere du naturligvis har lest (2020) and Fra Snorre til Skaranger: 66 norske klassikere du naturligvis har lest (2024). These books too were published by Tiden.[3][6] She is also a subject editor in Store norske leksikon.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Janne Stigen Drangsholt". University of Stavanger. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ^ a b Strand, Hilde Kristin (11 June 2023). "Professor med hemmeleg agenda". Khrono (in Norwegian). Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ a b "Janne Stigen Drangsholt". Forfatterkatalogen (in Norwegian). Norsk Forfattersentrum. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ Christensen, Lina (8 May 2023). "Janne S. Drangsholt har skrevet roman om krisen i humaniora". Forskerforum (in Norwegian). Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ "Kingsley Amis". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 28 September 2024.
- ^ "Slik briljerer du i din neste samtale med kollegaenauthor=Hima, Adrian". Sandnesposten (in Norwegian). 22 September 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ^ Nordal, Ola (18 October 2022). "Store norske leksikon møter UiS-forskere" (in Norwegian). University of Stavanger. Retrieved 28 September 2024.