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    Ole Edvart Rølvaag (Urban East Norwegian: [ˈûːlə ˈɛ̀dːvɑʈ ˈrø̂ːlvoːɡ]; Rølvåg in modern Norwegian, Rolvaag in English orthography) (April 22, 1876 – November...
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  • author Ole Edvart Rølvaag. First published in Norwegian in two volumes in 1924 and 1925, it was published in English in 1927, translated by Rølvaag and author...
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  • of Ole Edvart Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg (born 1990), Norwegian musician Ole Edvart Rølvaag (1876–1931), American author O. E. Rolvaag House,...
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    literature, Ole Edvart Rølvaag wrote about the immigrant experience, especially the Norwegian-American experience in The Dakotas. Rølvaag's home is a National...
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    his friend, Ole Edvart Rølvaag, Ager's body of work is thought to be on many levels, comparable with and sometimes superior to that of Rølvaag. A humorist...
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    (October 29, 1876 – 1962), poet Karl Rolvaag (July 18, 1913 – December 20, 1990), governor of Minnesota Ole Edvart Rølvaag (April 22, 1876 – November 5, 1931)...
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  • state who wrote about the area's early period of settlement was Ole Edvart Rølvaag. Rølvaag was a Norwegian immigrant who came to Elk Point to work as a...
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    first-time among them Hermann Hesse (awarded in 1946), Francis Jammes, Ole Edvart Rølvaag, Erich Maria Remarque, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, and Ramón Menéndez Pidal...
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  • Qualey Al Quie Max Ramsland Ole Ramsland Sarah Ramsland Harley Refsal Anton J. Rockne Karl Rolvaag Ole Edvart Rølvaag Nils Nilsen Ronning Esther Rose...
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    Marshall, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player Ole Edvart Rølvaag, graduate of Augustana Academy; author of Giants in the Earth Merle...
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  • takes place among Norwegian-American homesteaders in South Dakota, Ole Edvart Rølvaag wrote both it and its sequels while a professor at St. Olaf College...
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    Vikings (1922) tells the story of the Lofoten cod fishermen. In Ole Edvart Rølvaag's novel Giants in the Earth, the Norwegian protagonists settling in...
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    The O. E. Rølvaag House was the home of Ole Edvart Rølvaag (1876–1931), Norwegian-American novelist and professor at St. Olaf College. The home is located...
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    of Norske Folkeeventyr. This legend was written as a poem within Ole Edvart Rølvaag's 1933 novel The Boat of Longing. More recently, it appeared in the...
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  • Elizabeth Saundaus Griffiths Neil M. Gunn – Neil Miller Gunn O. E. Rølvaag – Ole Edvart Rølvaag O. Henry – pen-name of William Sydney Porter O. Douglas – pen-name...
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    vivid portrayal of the depredations of the locust can be found in Ole Edvart Rølvaag's Giants in the Earth, based in part on his own experiences and those...
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  • Robertson) – Ultima Thule (final part of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony) Ole Edvart Rølvaag – Peder Victorious (Peder Seier) Graham Seton – The W Plan Agnes Smedley...
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  • Robinson  Romania Actor 1893 Knute Rockne  Norway Football coach 1898 Ole Edvart Rølvaag  Norway Novelist, professor 1900 Michael Romanoff  Lithuania Restaurateur...
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    Peterson (politician) Aagot Raaen Scott Rislov Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud Ole Edvart Rølvaag Andrew J. Rommeriam Cyrus M. Running Martin Olav Sabo Stephanie Herseth...
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  • Hjalmar Holand, Waldemar Ager, George T. Flom, Peter Laurentius Larsen, Ole Edvart Rølvaag, and Kristofer Janson. The Symra Company (University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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  • which was to have featured Blythe Danner; a film adaptation of Ole Edvart Rølvaag's classic Giants in the Earth; Mallory, about a character strongly...
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  • – writer and illustrator of children's books in the 20th century Ole Edvart Rølvaag – (1876–1931) American novelist and professor Aagot Raaen – (1873–1957)...
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  • compiled by the composer from the writings of Henry David Thoreau, Ole Edvart Rølvaag, Otokar Březina, folk, traditional and liturgical sources 1981 Tři...
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  • 13 – Sidney Bradshaw Fay American historian (died 1967) April 22 – Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Norwegian-American writer (died 1931) May 10 – Ivan Cankar, Slovene...
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  • Qualey, Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume 21: Page 3) Ole Edvart Rølvaag ( John Heitmann. Norwegian-American Historical Association, Volume...
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  • Moore he wrote the opera Giants in the Earth, after the novel by Ole Edvart Rølvaag; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951. In 1952, he wrote The...
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  • College in Sioux City but transferred to St. Olaf College to study with Ole Edvart Rølvaag. He earned his B.A. in 1928 and immediately went on to graduate studies...
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    NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination Archive - Ole Rølvaag". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination...
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  • Erik Flakstad, businessperson and politician (died 1939) 22 April – Ole Edvart Rølvaag, novelist and professor in America (died 1931) 9 May – Johan Arndt...
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  • Earth may refer to: Giants in the Earth (novel), a 1924/1925 novel by Ole Edvart Rølvaag Giants in the Earth (opera), a 1951 adaptation of the novel, by Douglas...
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