Eystein Eggen

Eystein Eggen (5 January 1944 in Oslo – 19 November 2010) was a Norwegian writer.

In 1993 Eggen published The boy from Gimle—the autobiographical story of a Norwegian childhood in a Nazi milieu.

As a consequence, two years later the Norwegian war children got an official excuse.

"He is a symbol of an entire generation", the spokesman for the Norwegian Labour Party said in parliament.

Eggen's father was the Norwegian editor-in-chief of the Leitheft's Norse version during World War II.