biography
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Garborg, Arne Evenson
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1851–1924)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Jaeren, SW Norway. He was an advocate for social reform, and a leader in the movement to establish a new Norwegian literary language called Nynorsk (New Norwegian). He wrote a cycle of lyric poems, Haugtussa (1895, The Hill Innocent), and a series of realistic novels, such as Trette Men (1891, Tired Men). He also translated the Odyssey, wrote a drama on religious problems, Laereren (1896, The Teacher), and later attacked Lutheran theology in two controversial works. |
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