Arild Stubhaug

Arild Stubhaug (born 25 May 1948) is a Norwegian biographer and poet. He has won several literary awards for his biographies of Norwegian mathematicians.

Stubhaug was born in Naustdal. He received a cand.mag degree from the University of Bergen with the subjects mathematics, literature and religion.

He made his literary debut in 1970 with the poetry collection ''Utkantane''. He has written biographies of the mathematicians Sophus Lie, Niels Henrik Abel and Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Jacob Aall, Conrad Nicolai Schwach and Stein Rokkan.[4]

He received the Brage Prize in 1996 for the biography ''Et foranskutt lyn. Niels Henrik Abel og hans tid'', 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. Provided by Wikipedia