Background
Kjetsaa, Geir was born on June 2, 1937 in Oslo. Son of Thorleif and Marit (Hansen) Kjetsaa.
Kjetsaa, Geir was born on June 2, 1937 in Oslo. Son of Thorleif and Marit (Hansen) Kjetsaa.
University of Oslo and Moscow State University.
Assistant Department, of Slavic and Baltic Studies, University of Oslo 1966-1970, Professor since 1971. President Association of Norwegian Slavists 1977-1980, 1982-1987, Association of Scandinavian Slavists 87. Vice-President Institute Dostoevsky Society since 1983.
Author: Evgenij Baratynskij, 1973, The Authorship of the Quiet Don, 1984, Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Writer's Life, 1987, Nikolaj Gogol: Den gåtefulle dikteren, 1990, Maxim Gorki, Hildesheim, 1996, Lew Tolstoj, Gernsbach, 2001.
Member Association Norwegian Slavists (president 1977-1980, 82-87), Norwegian Acac. Science and Letters, Association Scandinavian Slavists (president 1984-1987), International Dostoevsky Society (vice president since 1983).
Skiing.
Married Gerd Margit, June 27, 1959. 1 child, Margit.