Terje Stigen

Terje Stigen (28 June 1922 – 14 August 2010) was a Norwegian author.

Terje Stigen was born on Magerøya in Finnmark, Norway. He spent part of his childhood in Tromsø. After his final exams at Nordstrand school in Aker during 1941, he studied philology at the University of Oslo, graduating cand.philol. English major in 1947.

He wrote 44 novels and short story collections, almost a new year, besides radio plays and numerous articles. Besides novels and short story collections, he wrote a series of radio plays for Radioteatret. Stigen debuted as an author in 1950 with publication of his novel To døgn. He wrote numerous books, mostly novels, but also a number of lectures and radio dramas. He wrote in Bokmål, the more common of the two Norwegian languages. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.

Terje Stigen received the Gyldendal's Endowment (Gyldendalprisen) in 1954, the Riksmål Society Literature Prize (Riksmålsprisen) in 1957 and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize (Bokhandlerprisen) in 1963.