Olav Duun
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Olav Duun (November 21, 1876 – September 13, 1939) was a Norwegian novelist. He was born in Jøa to Johannes Antonius Duun and Ellen (Fossum) Duun, and was known as one of the outstanding writers of 20th-century Norwegian fiction.[1] He attended the state school at Trøndelag, and worked as a teacher until the age of fifty, when he retired in order to devote his time to writing.
Duun wrote in Landsmål, an amalgam of peasant dialects that developed into Nynorsk, one of the official languages of Norway. Many of his books incorporate the dialects of his subjects: peasants, fishermen and farmers. He once lacked only one vote to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Duun died in Tønsberg of a stroke at the age of sixty-six.
His six volume work, The People of Juvick, that deals with 4 generations of a family of peasant landowners was translated into English and published as: The Trough of the Waves (1930), The Blind Man (1931), The Big Wedding (1932), Odin in Fairyland (1932), Odin Grows Up (1934) and Storm (1935).
[edit] Bibliography
- 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
[edit] References
- Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, New York, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1942.
