Background
She was born in Prague, but married Norwegian Hallvard Blekastad.
linguist literary historian translator university professor writer
She was born in Prague, but married Norwegian Hallvard Blekastad.
She was a lecturer in Czechoslovakian language at the University of Oslo from 1957. She took the dr.philos. degree in 1969 with the thesis Comenius, Versuch eines Umrisses von Leben, Werk und Schicksal des January Amos Komenský. She was a Government scholar from 1970.
She wrote several academic and popular works on Comenius.
Books about him include Menneskenes sak (1977), and translations include Verdsens labyrint (1955. Orig 1631) and Informatoriet for skulen hennar mor (1965).
She wrote historical overviews Millom aust og vest (1958) and Millom bork og ved (1978) as well as publishing the fairytale collection Tsjekkiske og Slovakiske eventyr in four volumes between 1939 and 1955.