John Giæver

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John Schjelderup Giæver (1901–1970) was a Norwegian author and polar researcher.

He lived as a trapper in north-east Greenland 1929–34, served with the Royal Norwegian Air Force in Little Norway, Canada 1941–44.

He held the position as office manager at Norsk Polarinstitutt (The Norwegian Institute of Polar Research), Tromsø, 1948–60, and was the leader of the wintering party of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1949–1952.

His literary career began with Illgjæringsmann (A misdeeder) (1921), which was translated into German in 1923. His book Maudheim (1952), describing the Antarctic Expedition was translated into English, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, German and Croatian.

From 1955 of he renewed his literary authorship with numerous books of documetary and partly autobiographical topics, covering Arctic trapping, fishing, warfare, as well as childhood memoirs from Tromsø. These books won great acclaim.

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1. John Giæver, The White Desert: The Official Account of the Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition, translated from the Norwegian by E.M. Huggard, London: Chatto & Windus, 1954.