Marie Colban was a Norwegian novelist, short story writer and translator. She was married to teacher Nathanael Angell Colban (1793–1850) from 1836. She translated Eugène Sue

Eugène Sue

Joseph Marie Eugène Sue was a French novelist.He was born in Paris, the son of a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army, and is said to have had the Empress Joséphine for godmother. Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the Battle of Navarino...

's novel Mathilde and other literary works from French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 into Norwegian language

Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...

. From 1856 she lived in Paris, and also wrote for Norwegian newspapers. Her first literary work was Lærerinden, en Skizze from 1869. From 1882 to 1884 she published a series of memoir articles from her Paris years in the magazine Nyt Tidsskrift

Nyt Tidsskrift

Nyt Tidsskrift is a former Norwegian literary, cultural and political magazine issued from 1882 to 1887, and with a second series from 1892 to 1895. The magazine had contributions from severeal of the leading intellectuals of the time, including later Nobel Literature Prize laureate Bjørnstjerne...

. She died in Rome in 1884.