biography
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Rölvaag or Roelvaag, O(le) E(dvart)
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pseudonym Paal Moerck
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pronunciation:
[rohlvahg]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1931)
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| biography:
| Writer, born on the Island of Donna, Helgeland, Norway. He gave up his life as a fisherman and emigrated to the USA (1896) to become a farmhand in South Dakota. He studied at Augusta College, a preparatory school in South Dakota, and graduated from St Olaf College (Minnesota) (1905). After graduate work at the University of Oslo, Norway, he became a professor of Norwegian language and literature at St Olaf (1907–31). He wrote in Norwegian, but helped with the English translations. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novels of Norwegian immigrant pioneers in the USA, such as Giants of the Earth (1927), the first of a trilogy on this theme. |
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