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Johan Borgen

Died in 1979

Johan Borgen was born on 28 April 1902 in Kristiania, the last of the four sons of a prosperous lawyer, and grew up in the Frogner district. Having joined Dagbladet rather than going to university, he wrote there, under the name Mumle Gåsegg, an ironic column. Arrested by the occupying forces in 1941 and interned at Grini, he then had to flee to Sweden. He edited the journal Vinduet from 1954 to 1959, received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1967 and died in Hvaler on 16 October 1979.

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