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, from 1894]] Arne Garborg (born January 25 , 1851 , died January 14 , 1924 ) was a Norwegian writer. He was born in Time, Norway . He was married to Hulda Garborg . Garborg championed the use of Nynorsk , or New Norwegian, as a literary language; he translated the Odyssey into it. He founded the weekly ''Fedraheim'' in 1877, in which he urged reforms in many spheres including political, social, religious, agrarian, and linguistic. Bibliography
References ''The Literary Masters of Norway, with samples of their works'', introduced by Carl Henrik Grøndahl and Nina Tjomsland; Tanum-Norli, Oslo 1978 EXTERNAL LINKS
cycle of poems "Haugtussa", which celebrates the landscape of Jæderen , where he grew up. and where he also built his study house "Knudaheio". |
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