Carl Joachim Hambro (philologist)

Carl Joachim Hambro (1914 – 1985) was a Norwegian philologist, essayist, novelist and translator.

He was born in Oslo as a son of Carl Joachim Hambro. He took the cand.philol. degree in 1939, was a lecturer in Norwegian at Sorbonne from 1946 to 1949, and at the same time Paris correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (1946–1951) and Arbeiderbladet (1949–1951). After being cultural counsellor at the Norwegian embassy in London from 1952 to 1959, he was hired as a lecturer at the University of Oslo. He was an active essayist, novelist and translator,^[1] and was awarded the Bastian Prize for translation in 1963.^[2]

References

^ Henriksen, Petter, ed (2007). "Carl Joachim Hambro – norsk forfatter og filolog" (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. http://www.snl.no/Carl_Joachim_Hambro/norsk_forfatter_og_filolog. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
^ Henriksen, Petter, ed (2007). "Bastianprisen" (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. http://www.snl.no/Bastianprisen. Retrieved 24 May 2009.

Awards
Preceded by Trygve Greiff	Recipient of the Bastian Prize 1963	Succeeded by Brikt Jensen

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Name	Hambro, Carl Joachim
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Date of birth	1914
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Date of death	1985
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