Died 1962-10-10.
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Trygve Gulbranssen
Trygve Emanuel Gulbranssen was a Norwegian novelist, businessman and journalist.
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business · Norwegian novelist, businessman and journalist · writer · entrepreneur · journalist · screenwriter · farmer · also Trygve Gulbranssen, Gulbranssen
Born 15 June 1894 · Died 10 October 1962 · Q366315
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1962· 1 entry
1958· 1 entry
All of the farm's animals were sold at auction and Gulbranssen, like many other farmers in Østfold, was forced to rely entirely on the production of grain
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1955· 1 entry
Helped found the Mysen Rotary Club, where he actively participated as a charter member until his death in 1962
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1950· 2 entries
Elected to use the prize money to endow a Peace Library
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Where he paid visits to several of the European publishers
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1940· 1 entry
Gulbranssen moved with his family to a farm in Eidsberg, allowing him to realize his dream of being a farmer, and even though he did not personally participate in the daily chores, he invested a great deal of effort in t
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1939· 1 entry
When the humanist and writer Max Tau fled from Nazi Germany to Norway with the help of Tore Hamsun, Trygve Gulbranssen was one of the first to open his home to him, inaugurating a lifelong friendship
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1935· 1 entry
As the sales of his books began to pick up, Gulbranssen moved his family to a villa at Eventyr Road No
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1930· 1 entry
The couple welcomed their firstborn, Ragna, and three years later their son Per was born
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1914· 1 entry
A drawing of a horse that he had made was selected for the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition
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1913· 1 entry
The same year her brother was promoted to bookkeeper
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1912· 1 entry
In order to assert his own identity, and continued thereafter to sign his name with double-"s" and no "d
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1906· 2 entries
Gulbranssen lost the only constant in his family's otherwise unpredictable city life
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Was supposed to deliver food from a delicatessen to Henrik Ibsen's home on Arbins Street
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1901· 1 entry
Gulbranssen lost his two-year-old sister Ragnhild Margrethe to dysentery, which she had contracted through contaminated well water
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1899· 1 entry
The housing bubble burst in what has subsequently become known as the Kristiania Crash
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-06-15.
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