User:Gjengset

Gjengset, Gunnar Hauk
Gunnar Hauk Gjengset (10/5-1946) is a Norwegian researcher and author. Gjengset got worldwide attention when he in January 1970 was arrested in the Soviet Union when demonstrating against the Breznjev regime. Gjengset had traveled to Leningrad, former St. Petersburg, to hand out leaflets demanding the release of the author Yoli Galanskov and war hero general Pyotr Grigorenko, both well-known dissidents. In the trial that followed, Gjengset was sentenced to one year in a criminal camp, but was released after international pressure from his detention in a criminal asylum. He later wrote the book Under the iron curtain on this experience.http://ask.bibsys.no/ask/action/show?pid=092105955&kid=biblio. Gjengset is a Doctor of Philosophy in Literature from the University of Umea, and has been a researcher on both children's upbringing, and on the medias. His doctoral assertation is about the authorship of the Sami writer Matti Aikio (Matti Aikio - Works and Writings, Umea 2011). http://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:407907. Gjengset has written several books, including a biography of Gustav Vigeland, the world famous Norwegian sculptor.http://ask.bibsys.no/ask/action/show?pid=112097979&kid=biblio. He is also the nation's only reknown aforistic, having his own daily column in one of the major Norwegian newspapers.The column has been running for more than 20 years.