Rolf Jacobsen

Rolf Jacobsen was born on 8 March 1907 in Kristiania, the son of a dentist. A socialist before the war, he signed editorials favourable to the Germans during the occupation and was convicted of treason and sentenced to three and a half years of hard labour. He then lived in Hamar, where he was a bookseller and journalist, and converted to Catholicism in 1950. He received the Dobloug Prize in 1968 and the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize in 1989. He died in 1994.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryJord og jernRolf Jacobsen · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature