Jens Bjørneboe

Jens Bjørneboe was born on 9 October 1920 in Kristiansand, into a well-off family of shipowners and naval officers, and went to sea young. He crossed into Sweden in 1943 to escape forced labour, was a painter and a teacher in a Steiner school, and was convicted of obscenity. Britannica sees in his work a constant indignation against the abuse of power. A cousin of the poet André Bjerke, he took his own life on 9 May 1976 on the island of Veierland.

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• NovelMoment of FreedomFrihetens øyeblikkJens Bjørneboe · 1966Literature