Eva Scheer

Eva Scheer
Scheer in 1981
Born	1915 (1915) Oslo, Norway
Died	1999 (aged 83–84)
Nationality	Norwegian
Occupation(s)	journalist, literary critic, translator and author

Eva Scheer (1915–1999) was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, translator and author.

She was born in Oslo to Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. In 1942, during the German occupation of Norway, several of her family members were deported and eventually died in the Auschwitz concentration camp, while Scheer managed to flee to Sweden. After World War II, she worked as journalist for the newspaper Arbeiderbladet. She made her literary debut in 1948, with the book Vi bygger i sand. She was a co-founder of the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators in 1948, and also worked as literary critic. She was a reporter for Arbeiderbladet in Palestine and Israel during the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, and her books on this issue include Vi møttes i Jerusalem from 1951, and Israel: dobbelt-løftets land from 1967. Her book Posene på gjerdestolpen from 1977 contains Jewish fairytales and folklore translated for children. Her later books include Papirbroen: jødisk drøm og virkelighet (1979), Tre er fedrene, fire mødrene (1981), En smak av vintreets frukt (1982), and Hundene gjør ved vanningsstedet (1983).