Herman Wildenvey

Herman Theodor Portaas was born on 20 July 1885 in Mjøndalen, near Drammen, and grew up on the small farm of Portåsen. He published a first collection under his own name in 1902, emigrated in 1904 to the United States, survived the wreck of the Norge near Rockall that same year and returned in 1906. Married in 1912 to Gisken Andreassen, herself a writer, he translated Shakespeare, Heine and Hemingway. He died on 27 September 1959 in Stavern, where the couple had settled.

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• PoetryNyingerHerman Wildenvey · 1907not translated into EnglishLiterature