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Edith Øberg
1895–1968
A once-popular Norwegian novelist, she wrote lively, emotionally sharp books about modern women, friendship, and desire. Her work has drawn renewed attention for its early, often coded portrayals of love between women.
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About the author
Born in Lysekil, Sweden, on October 5, 1895, she grew up in Kristiania (now Oslo) after her family moved to Norway. Before writing took over, she studied languages, singing, and music, and made her debut as a singer in 1915.
Her literary debut came in 1916 with Pr. korrespondance. She went on to publish a long run of novels in the interwar years, and several books released in the 1930s under the pseudonym Lita became especially popular for their witty portraits of independent women.
Today, she is often remembered not only as a successful novelist of her time, but also as one of the early Norwegian writers to explore intense bonds between women and same-sex desire, sometimes openly and sometimes in more veiled form. She died in Oslo on September 21, 1968.