Aksel Sandemose

Axel Nielsen was born on 19 March 1899 in Nykøbing, on the Danish island of Mors. Shipped out as a teenager, he left his ship in Newfoundland and worked among lumberjacks, then returned to Denmark to publish his first stories in Danish. He took the name Sandemose, settled in Norway around 1930 and then switched from Danish to Norwegian. He went to Sweden in 1941, because of links with the resistance. He died in Copenhagen on 6 August 1965.

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• NovelA Fugitive Crosses His TracksEn flyktning krysser sitt sporAksel Sandemose · 1933Literature