Arild Stubhaug
{{Short description|Norwegian mathematician, poet and biographer (born 1948)}}
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| alma_mater = University of Bergen
| occupation = Mathematician, poet and biographer
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- Brage Prize (1996)
- Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl (2008)
- Dobloug Prize (2010) }}
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Arild Stubhaug (born 25 May 1948) is a Norwegian biographer and poet.{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Lauritsen |first1=Vibeke |title=Arild Stubhaug |url=https://snl.no/Arild_Stubhaug |encyclopedia=SNL |date=3 November 2021 |access-date=6 September 2022 |language=nn}} He has won several literary awards for his biographies of Norwegian mathematicians.
Early life and education
Stubhaug was born in Naustdal on 25 May 1948, a son educator Lidvald Stubhaug and nurse Borghild Daltveit. He received a cand.mag degree from the University of Bergen with the subjects mathematics, literature and religion.{{Cite web |last=Stubhaug |first=Av Arild |title=Svar til Nilsen |url=https://prosa.no/debatt/svar-til-nilsen/ |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=Prosa |language=nb}}
Literary career
Stubhaug made his literary debut in 1970 with the poetry collection Utkantane. Further poetry collections are {{lang|no|Du ber vatn i hendene}} from 1973, {{lang|no|Eld i sol}} from 1988, and {{lang|no|Lemmata}} from 2008.
He has written biographies of the mathematicians Sophus Lie, Niels Henrik Abel and Gösta Mittag-Leffler,{{cite encyclopedia|title=Arild Stubhaug |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Arild_Stubhaug |language=no|access-date=16 December 2014}} Jacob Aall, {{ill|Conrad Nicolai Schwach|no}}, and Stein Rokkan. He received the Brage Prize in 1996 for the biography Et foranskutt lyn. Niels Henrik Abel og hans tid,{{cite web|url=http://www.brageprisen.no/tekster/tidligere.shtml |title=Tidligere vinnere av Brageprisen |language=no |access-date=20 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610082646/http://www.brageprisen.no/tekster/tidligere.shtml |archive-date=10 June 2008 }} translated into English under the title Niels Henrik Abel and his Times: Called Too Soon by Flames Afar,
He followed up with the 250-year history of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (2010) and biographies of Jacob Aall (2014) and the social scientist Stein Rokkan (2019).
Stubhaug is married to Kari Bøge.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Kari Bøge |first=Øystein |last=Rottem |author-link=Øystein Rottem |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon |date=18 June 2024 |editor-first=Knut |editor-last=Helle |editor-link=Knut Helle |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Kari_Bøge |language=Norwegian |access-date=19 September 2024}}
Awards
- Brage Prize, 1996
- {{ill|Norsk språkpris|no}}, 2001{{cite encyclopedia|title=Norsk språkpris |first= |last= |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |date= 11 September 2024|editor-first=Erik | editor-last=Bolstad |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Norsk_språkpris |language=no |accessdate=19 September 2024}}
- Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl, 2008{{cite encyclopedia|title=Thorleif Dahls pris |first=Fred |last=Huvenes |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |date=19 September 2024 |editor-first=Erik | editor-last=Bolstad |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Thorleif_Dahls_pris |language=no |accessdate=19 September 2024}}
- Doblougprisen 2010
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Category:20th-century Norwegian poets
Category:University of Bergen alumni
Category:20th-century Norwegian male writers
Category:Norwegian biographers
Category:20th-century Norwegian historians
Category:Norwegian male biographers
Category:21st-century Norwegian historians
Category:Norwegian mathematicians
Category:Historians of mathematics
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