Svein Eirik Fauskevåg

Svein Eirik Fauskevåg (5 August 1942 – 29 July 2022) was a Norwegian literary historian.

He was born in Harstad. He finished the mag.art. degree in the history of ideas at the University of Oslo in 1969. In 1978 he took dr.philos. degree, defending a doctoral thesis about Marquis de Sade. From 1981 Fauskevåg was a professor of Romance literature at the University of Trondheim, mainly French. Fauskevåg was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2003.

Fauskevåg mainly published his works in France. In addition to his study objects being French, another reason was that Sade studies were frowned upon at the University of Oslo in the 1970s. According to Martin Wåhlberg, Fauskevåg was also seen as an outsider in the 1960s, being homosexual. Fauskevåg, who remained unmarried, was also a convert to Roman Catholicism.