Author · Norway
Olaf Bull
Died in 1933
Olaf Bull was born on 10 November 1883 in Kristiania, the son of the writer Jacob Breda Bull and his second wife. After secondary school, he joined his family in Rome, returned in 1903 to study in Kristiania and was for a few years a journalist at Posten and Dagbladet. He then lived as a bohemian, for a long time in Italy and France; he is said to have been James Joyce's first Norwegian teacher. His son Jan became a poet in his turn. He died at Ullevål hospital, in Oslo, on 23 June 1933.