The author and the translator
Bergen
1993:
Arild Haaland is 73 years of age and is, like Hamlet,
‘extremely quick in his perceptions and wide awake in
answering’. He has for 45 years worked in the Department of
Philosophy at the University of Bergen, where his students
have especially valued his interest in relating
philosophical questions to our daily lives. In the words of
a colleague: ‘Haaland not only writes about philosophers,
he is one’.
His publications include books on Nazism, Nietzsche, Plato,
Ibsen, Hamsun, international politics, economy and
taxation, and art, as well as numerous articles, especially
on cultural issues. He is a generous donator of works of
art to his native Bergen and other communities, and he
cultivates his hobby of restoring old houses to their
former beauty.
Arild Haaland lives simply and prefers a dinner of fried
eggs, supplemented with onions, which he claims also kept
the Vikings vigorous.
Marianne Haslev Skånland is a linguist and philologist who
likes texts, lexicography, translation, cats, mushrooms,
trees and nature.