Nina Karin Monsen

Nina Karin Monsen

Nina Karin Monsen at the Fritt Ord Award ceremony in 2009
Full name	Nina Karin Monsen
Born	May 29, 1943 (1943-05-29) (age 68)
Era	20th Century, 21st Century
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Feminist philosophy, Personalism

Nina Karin Monsen (born 29 May 1943 in Bergen) is a Norwegian moral philosopher and author.

She was appointed a government scholarship awardee (Norwegian: statsstipendiat) in 2004. She has written several books, both non-fiction and fiction works, and has been active in Norwegian public debate since the early 1970s.

Monsen is Magister of Philosophy (1969) and was one of the founders of the Norwegian new feminist movement in 1970. Her early work was on the logician Quine and later feminist philosophy; she since became the most visible proponent of Personalism in Norway, with Det elskende menneske (The loving human being, 1987) as the most central work.^[1][2]

Monsen grew up in a humanist family, but later convert to Christianity through philosophic thinking.^[3] Recently, Monsen has been a strong opponent of the introduction of same-sex marriage in Norway.

In 2009, she was awarded the Fritt Ord Award.

She was married to legal scholar Helge Johan Thue until he died in 2010.^[4][5]

Publications

Non-fiction

• Det kvinnelige menneske. Aschehoug, 1975
• Jomfru, mor eller menneske Universitetsforlaget, 1984
• Det elskende menneske, person og etikk (1987)
• Det Kjempende menneske, person og etikk (1990)
• Velferd uten ansikt, en filosofisk analyse av velferdsstaten (1998)
• Kunsten å tenke, en filosofisk metode til et bedre liv (2001)
• Den gode sirkel, en filosofi om helse og kjærlighet (2002)
• Det sårbare menneske, en filosofi om skam, skyld og synd (2004)
• Livstro, lesetykker (2005)
• Det innerste valget (2007)
• Kampen om ekteskapet og barnet (2009)

Fiction

• Under Godhetens synsvinkel, essays, 1992
• Kvinnepakten, novel, 1977
• Jammersminne, novel, 1980
• Dødt liv, short stories, 1987
• Inntrengere, novel, 1989
• Tvillingsjeler, novel, 1993

References

1. ^ Nina Karin Monsen, in Store Norske Leksikon
2. ^ Personalisme, in Store Norske Leksikon
3. ^ Norge IDAG - Monsen med bok om sin tro
4. ^ http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/05/10/magasinet/portrettet/nina_karin_monsen/6121371/
5. ^ http://www.uib.no/jur/nyheter/2010/10/minneord-for-dr.juris-helge-johan-thue

Awards
Preceded by Per-Yngve Monsen	Recipient of the Fritt Ord Award 2009	Succeeded by Bushra Ishaq and Abid Raja

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Name	Monsen, Nina Karin
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Date of birth	29 May 1943
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