Olav Duun in 1936.Memorial stone for Olav Duun, at the farm where he grew up, Øver-Dun. The location is Jøa, in Fosnes, Norway
Olav Duun (21 November 1876 – 13 September 1939) was a writer of Norwegian fiction. He is generally recognized to be one of the more outstanding writers in Norwegian literature. He once lacked only one vote to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature,[1][2] and was nominated twenty-four times, in fourteen years.[3]
^A History of Norwegian Literature(by Harald Beyer; New York University Press, 1956)[1]
OlavDuun (21 November 1876 – 13 September 1939) was a writer of Norwegian fiction. He is generally recognized to be one of the more outstanding writers...
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Rolf Krake (1910) by F. Schanz, the novel Juvikingerne (1918–1923) by OlavDuun, the comedy Der entfesselte Wotan (1923) by Ernst Toller, the novel Wotan...
Valéry, António Correia de Oliveira, Miguel Unamuno, Kostis Palamas, OlavDuun, Jarl Hemmer, Karel Capek, Benedetto Croce, Roger Martin du Gard (awarded...
Hofmannsthal, Thomas Hardy, Guglielmo Ferrero, Rudolf Maria Holzapfel, OlavDuun, Ada Negri and Johannes V. Jensen (awarded in 1944). There were six authors...
Holzapfel, Georg Brandes, Thomas Hardy, Roberto Bracco, Johan Bojer, OlavDuun, Paul Ernst, Paul Sabatier, Arnold Bennett, Paul Claudel, Kostis Palamas...
were newly nominated: Thomas Mann (awarded in 1929), Max Neuburger and OlavDuun. There were two female nominees namely the Italian novelists Grazia Deledda...
1939), Johannes V. Jensen (awarded in 1944), Paul Valéry, Kostis Palamas, OlavDuun, and H.G. Wells. Nine of the nominees were newly nominated namely Percival...
Johannes V. Jensen (awarded in 1944), Paul Valéry, Karel Capek, Coelho Neto, OlavDuun and Upton Sinclair. "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1933". nobelprize.org...
NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination Archive - OlavDuun". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination...
Pidal, Francisco García Calderón, Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício, OlavDuun and Upton Sinclair. At the award ceremony on 10 December 1934, Per Hallström...
People of Juvik is a series of six historical novels by Norwegian author OlavDuun. The books chronicle the lives of the Juvikings, an old Norwegian landowning...
researcher. He was born in Fana. In 1950 and 1976 he published works about OlavDuun; in 1962 he took the dr.philos. degree with a thesis about Per Sivle....
samtidslitteratur og om litterær tradisjon (1994), and he has biographed OlavDuun and Ragnvald Skrede. He retired as a professor in 2006. He died in November...
– Stanley Jackson, English cricketer and politician (d. 1947) 1876 – OlavDuun, Norwegian author and educator (d. 1939) 1877 – Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German...
criticism Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) Torsten Fogelqvist (1880–1941) 9 OlavDuun (1876–1939) Norway novel, short story Helga Eng (1875–1966) 10 Johan...
Viga-Ljot og Vigdis ("Gunnar's Daughter", 1909) and tetralogy Olav Audunssøn i Hestviken og Olav Audunssøn og Hans Børn ("The Master of Hestviken", 1925–27)...
river name is unknown. Namdalen is the location of many of the stories of OlavDuun, a well-known early twentieth century Norwegian author. His most famous...
diverse roles as Celius in Nils Kjær's Det lykkelige valg, Didrik in OlavDuun's Medmenneske, and Firs in Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Hefte received...
(1832–1910) Johan Borgen (1902–1979) Lars Saabye Christensen (born 1953) OlavDuun (1876–1939) Johan Falkberget (1879–1967) Jostein Gaarder (born 1952),...
Harald Tveit Alvestrand (born 1959 Namsos) a Norwegian computer scientist OlavDuun (1876 on Jøa – 1939) a noteworthy author of Norwegian fiction Arne Svendsen...
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