Olav Duun

Olav Duun was born on 21 November 1876 on the island of Jøa, in the Namsenfjord, and took the name Duun when he left the island to become a schoolteacher. He taught in Vestfold, at Holmestrand, until 1927, then devoted himself to writing. He wrote in landsmål, the language drawn from peasant dialects that became Nynorsk. Nominated twenty-four times for the Nobel Prize, he died in Tønsberg on 13 September 1939.

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• NovelThe People of JuvikJuvikfolkeOlav Duun · 1923LiteraturePublic domain