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    Olav Duun (21 November 1876 – 13 September 1939) was a writer of Norwegian fiction. He is generally recognized to be one of the more outstanding writers...
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    translated fiction from English, obtained a doctorate with a dissertation on Olav Duun, and published books about the writer Torborg Nedreaas. Her fiction debut...
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  • Duun may refer to: Aksel Duun (1921–1987), a Danish sprint canoer Olav Duun (1876–1939), a Norwegian author Duun language, a Mande language of Mali This...
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    were newly nominated: Thomas Mann (awarded in 1929), Max Neuburger and Olav Duun. There were two female nominees namely the Italian novelists Grazia Deledda...
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    1939), Johannes V. Jensen (awarded in 1944), Paul Valéry, Kostis Palamas, Olav Duun, and H. G. Wells. Nine of the nominees were newly nominated namely Percival...
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    Rolf Krake (1910) by F. Schanz, the novel Juvikingerne (1918–1923) by Olav Duun, the comedy Der entfesselte Wotan (1923) by Ernst Toller, the novel Wotan...
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  • Christensen, author and poet Camilla Collett (1813–1895), writer, feminist Olav Duun, author Tom Egeland, author Peter Egge, author, journalist, playwright...
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    People of Juvik is a series of six historical novels by Norwegian author Olav Duun. The books chronicle the lives of the Juvikings, an old Norwegian landowning...
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    NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination Archive - Olav Duun". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination...
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    Holzapfel, Georg Brandes, Thomas Hardy, Roberto Bracco, Johan Bojer, Olav Duun, Paul Ernst, Paul Sabatier, Arnold Bennett, Paul Claudel, Kostis Palamas...
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    Johannes V. Jensen (awarded in 1944), Paul Valéry, Karel Capek, Coelho Neto, Olav Duun and Upton Sinclair. "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1933". nobelprize.org...
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  • literature at the University of Oslo. She has published on Arne Garborg and Olav Duun, among others. She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and...
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  • researcher. He was born in Fana. In 1950 and 1976 he published works about Olav Duun; in 1962 he took the dr.philos. degree with a thesis about Per Sivle....
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  • (1832–1910) Johan Borgen (1902–1979) Lars Saabye Christensen (born 1953) Olav Duun (1876–1939) Johan Falkberget (1879–1967) Jostein Gaarder (born 1952),...
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    Valéry, António Correia de Oliveira, Miguel Unamuno, Kostis Palamas, Olav Duun, Jarl Hemmer, Karel Capek, Benedetto Croce, Roger Martin du Gard (awarded...
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  • central part of the island of Jøa, and it is the location of Dun Church. Olav Duun was from this village. The village was the administrative centre of the...
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    river name is unknown. Namdalen is the location of many of the stories of Olav Duun, a well-known early twentieth century Norwegian author. His most famous...
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  • – Stanley Jackson, English cricketer and politician (d. 1947) 1876 – Olav Duun, Norwegian author and educator (d. 1939) 1877 – Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German...
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    Kern (1884–1950) Walter Goetz (1867–1958) Kurt Breysig (1866–1940) 8 Olav Duun (1876–1939)  Norway novel, short story Halvdan Koht (1873–1965) 9 Paul...
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    Moldvikfjellet is the highest point on the island. The Norwegian writer Olav Duun was born in the village of Dun, in the central part of the island, where...
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  • (The Teacher) and Den bortkomne faderen (The Lost Father), as well as Olav Duun's Medmenneske (Fellow Man) and Ettermæle (A Reputation Left Behind). Øksnes...
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    memoir Torsten Fogelqvist (1880–1941) Anders Österling (1884–1981) 11 Olav Duun (1876–1939)  Norway novel, short story Halvdan Koht (1873–1965) Helga...
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  • (1856–1877, India, p/f) Geoffrey Dutton (1922–1998, Australia, f/p/ch) Olav Duun (1876–1939, Norway, f) Karen Duve (born 1961, Germany, f/nf) Mona Van...
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    Hofmannsthal, Thomas Hardy, Guglielmo Ferrero, Rudolf Maria Holzapfel, Olav Duun, Ada Negri and Johannes V. Jensen (awarded in 1944). There were six authors...
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    Viga-Ljot og Vigdis ("Gunnar's Daughter", 1909) and tetralogy Olav Audunssøn i Hestviken og Olav Audunssøn og Hans Børn ("The Master of Hestviken", 1925–27)...
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  • March 4, 1970) was a Norwegian film director and actor. He also read Olav Duun books for NRK Radio. 1936: Vi bygger landet 1937: By og land hand i hand...
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  • samtidslitteratur og om litterær tradisjon (1994), and he has biographed Olav Duun and Ragnvald Skrede. He retired as a professor in 2006. He died in November...
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  • Anker (1873–1942) Gabriel Scott (1874–1958) Ragnhild Jølsen (1875–1908) Olav Duun (1876–1939) Kristofer Uppdal (1878–1961) Johan Falkberget (1879–1967)...
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    criticism Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) Torsten Fogelqvist (1880–1941) 9 Olav Duun (1876–1939)  Norway novel, short story Helga Eng (1875–1966) 10 Johan...
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    watching the 2003 film School of Rock. She studied music, dance and drama at Olav Duun Upper Secondary School in Namsos, Trøndelag, from 2011 to 2013. In 2012...
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