Profil (literary magazine)

Profil was a Norwegian literary magazine which had great influence in the late 1960s and the 1970s. The magazine was founded in 1938 as Filologen, a house organ for the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo. Its name was changed to Profil in 1959. In 1966 the magazine was taken over by a group of radical students.^[1] They opposed established literary views, and introduced the modernist literature.^[2] The circle of writers that emerged are often referred to as the "Profil Generation".