Novelist, born in Namsdal, Norway. He worked as a teacher from 1904 to 1926. An important representative of new Norwegian writing in Landsmål (national language) between the two World Wars, he made his reputation with a major series of saga-like novels about four generations of peasant landholders in Namsdal in Juvikfolke (6 vols, 191823, The People of Juvik).
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1907: Løglege skruvar og anna folk 1908: Marjane 1909: På tvert 1910: Nøkksjøliga 1911: Gamal Jord 1912: Hilderøya, Storbåten 1913: Sigyn, Sommareventyr 1914: Tre venner 1915: Harald 1916:
Det gode samvite 1917: På Lyngsøya 1918-23: Juvikfolket 1918: Juvikingar 1919: I Blinda 1920: Storbybryllope 1921: I eventyret 1922: I Ungdommen 1923: I Stormen 1924: Blind-Anders 1925: Straumen
og evja 1927: Olsøygutane 1928: Carolus Magnus 1929: Medmenneske 1930: Vegar og villstig 1931: Ragnhild 1932: Ettermæle 1933: Siste leveåre 1935: Gud smiler 1936: Samtid 1938: Menneske og maktene
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