biography
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Grieg, (Johan) Nordahl Brun
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pronunciation:
[greeg]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1902–43)
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| biography:
| Poet and playwright, born in Bergen, SW Norway. He studied at Oslo and Oxford, and spent much of his youth travelling, mirrored in his volumes of early poetry. A committed anti-Fascist, he wrote dramas about national freedom, as in Vår Ære og Vår Makt (1935, Our Power and Our Glory) and Nederlaget (1937, Defeat). During World War 2 he joined the Resistance, escaped to London, and broadcast his patriotic verses back to his homeland. He died when his plane was shot down over Berlin in 1943. |
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