Arnulf Øverland

Arnulf Øverland was born on 27 April 1889 in Kristiansund; the early death of his father left the family in hardship. A socialist, close to the communists in the 1920s, he was prosecuted for blasphemy after a lecture against Christianity in 1933, then acquitted. His poems against the occupier circulated clandestinely; arrested, he spent four years in the German camps. In 1946 the state gave him the Grotten, the former house of Henrik Wergeland, as his home. He died in Oslo on 25 March 1968.

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• PoetryHustavlerArnulf Øverland · 1929not translated into EnglishLiterature