Odd Eidem

Odd Eidem was a Norwegian writer, journalist, and literary critic.

He was born on October 23,1913 in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the eldest of three sons born to Gunnar Kølbel and Dorothea Serine Eidem. He grew up in Hamar and received his artium in 1931. He earned a master's degree in literature history at the University of Oslo in 1938.

He debuted in 1939 as a fiction author. During the 1930s, he was an active member of the political movement Mot Dag. He worked as a secretary for Nansenhjelpen from 1938 to 1940. After World War II, Eidem became a literary critic at Verdens Gang, where he remained a regular contributor until 1977. From 1955 to 1977, he also wrote theater reviews. He wrote a column for Aftenposten from 1978 to 1988. 

Eidem received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1978 for the flâneries, Cruise and received the Cappelen Prize in 1980.

Eidem died on June 10, 1988.