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Sigurd Hoel

Died in 1960

Sigurd Hoel was born on 14 December 1890 in Nord-Odal. According to Britannica, he gave up becoming a mathematics teacher after winning a Scandinavian short-story prize. An editor at Gyldendal, he was a friend of Wilhelm Reich during Reich's stay in Norway and went through his training; Britannica makes him the first Norwegian novelist directly marked by psychoanalysis. Involved in the resistance, he had to flee to Sweden. He died in Oslo on 14 October 1960.

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