Johan Falkberget

Johan Petter Lillebakken was born on 30 September 1879 in the Rugeldal, near Røros, and took the name Falkberget in 1893. A miner at Røros, he left the mine in 1905 or 1906 and in 1906 edited the newspaper Nybrott in Ålesund, before living by his pen. He sat in the Storting for the Labour Party from 1931 to 1933 and received a state poet's pension in 1930 according to PolSys. He died on 5 April 1967.

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• NovelThe Fourth Night WatchDen fjerde nattevaktJohan Falkberget · 1923Literature