| Arild Stubhaug | |
| Birth Date: | 5 May 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Naustdal, Norway |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Alma Mater: | University of Bergen |
| Occupation: | Mathematician, poet and biographer |
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Arild Stubhaug (born 25 May 1948) is a Norwegian biographer and poet.[1] He has won several literary awards for his biographies of Norwegian mathematicians.
Stubhaug was born in Naustdal on 25 May 1948, a son educator Lidvald Stubhaug and nurse Borghild Daltveit. He received a cand.mag degree from the University of Bergen with the subjects mathematics, literature and religion.[2]
Stubhaug made his literary debut in 1970 with the poetry collection Utkantane. Further poetry collections are Norwegian: Du ber vatn i hendene from 1973, Norwegian: Eld i sol from 1988, and Norwegian: Lemmata from 2008.
He has written biographies of the mathematicians Sophus Lie, Niels Henrik Abel and Gösta Mittag-Leffler,[3] Jacob Aall,, and Stein Rokkan.[3] He received the Brage Prize in 1996 for the biography Et foranskutt lyn. Niels Henrik Abel og hans tid,[4] 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).[3]
Stubhaug is married to Kari Bøge.[5]