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Harald Rosenløw Eeg

Norwegian novelist and script writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ326393 ↗
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Harald Rosenløw Eeg (born 18 August 1970) is a Norwegian novelist and script writer. He made his literary début in 1995 with the youth novel Glasskår, for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. Eeg also wrote the script for a film with the same name from 2002. He wrote the script for Hawaii, Oslo, directed by Erik Poppe and released in 2004, and for the film Uro from 2006, directed by Stefan Faldbakken. The 2008 film Troubled Water, directed by Poppe, was based on a script by Eeg. The film won the audience prize for best narrative feature film at the 16th Hamptons International Film Festival in 2008.

Eeg was awarded the Brage Prize in 2004 for the youth novel Yatzy.

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The public source identifies “Harald Rosenløw Eeg” as norwegian novelist and script writer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Harald, Rosenløw and Norwegian.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1995, 2002, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-08-18. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Harald, Rosenløw and Norwegian providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q326393. VIAF identifies the subject as 44598592. The Library of Congress control number is n98030106. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1995, 2002 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Harald Rosenløw Eeg” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.