Endre Lund Eriksen


Endre Lund Eriksen is a Norwegian author and politician.
Lund Eriksen was active in Socialist Youth in his teenage years, and as a member of the Norwegian Socialist Left Party in Nordland, Eriksen was a :no:Vararepresentant |deputy in the Storting Parliament from 1997 to 2001. In March 2015 he was elected to the SV central board with a special responsibility to follow up on the project "Yes to Northern Norway."
He made his book debut as an author in 2002, with the children's book Pitbull-Terje går amok. The book received the :no:Kulturdepartementets priser for barne- og ungdomslitteratur|Kulturdepartementets priser for barne- og ungdomslitteratur, and was made into a film, Pitbullterje, with manuscript by Lund Eriksen. The film won the 2006 Amanda Award for Best Children and Youth Film.
Lund Eriksen has written three more books about Pitbull-Terje: Pitbull-Terje og kampen mot barnevernet , that won the 2006 :no:Arks barnebokpris|Arks barnebokpris, Pitbull-Terje blir ond , that won the 2008 :no:UPrisen|UPrisen, and Pitbull-Terje på sporet av den tapte far .
Lund Eriksen has received several awards for his books, that have been translated to 11 languages including Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Sami, and Swedish.

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