Aksel Sandemose

Aksel Sandemose

Sandemose in 1934
Born Axel Nielsen
(1899-03-19)19 March 1899
Nykøbing Mors, Denmark
Died 6 August 1965(1965-08-06) (aged 66)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality Danish-Norwegian
Occupation Writer

Aksel Sandemose (né Axel Nielsen; 19 March 1899, Nykøbing Mors, Denmark – 6 August 1965, Copenhagen) was a Danish-Norwegian writer.

He was born in Denmark in 1899 to a Danish father and a Norwegian mother. He is the grandfather of illustrator and children's writer Iben Sandemose. In his youth, he worked as a teacher, journalist, sailor and lumberjack in Newfoundland. In 1930, Sandemose moved to Norway, and lived in Nesodden, south of Oslo. After Nazi Germany occupied Norway during World War II, he was forced to flee to neighboring Sweden in 1941 due to his association with the Norwegian resistance. After the war, he moved back to Norway, and settled in Søndeled. He died in Copenhagen in 1965, and was buried in Oslo.

Sandemose was one of six finalists for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963.[1]

In his 1933 novel En flykting krysser sitt spor (A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks), Sandemose introduced the concept of the Law of Jante.

A Norwegian Air Shuttle Boeing 737, registration LN-DYP was named in memory of Sandemose, with a picture of him on the tail.[2]

Sandemose family grave, Vestre gravlund, Oslo.

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References

  1. ↑ "Candidates for the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature". Nobel Prize. 2013. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ https://img.planespotters.net/photo/249000/original/ln-dyp-norwegian-air-shuttle-boeing-737-8jpwl_PlanespottersNet_249330.jpg

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