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    Olav Duun (21 November 1876 – 13 September 1939) was a writer of Norwegian fiction. He is generally recognized to be one of the more outstanding writers...
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  • Duun may refer to: Aksel Duun (1921–1987), a Danish sprint canoer Olav Duun (1876–1939), a Norwegian author Duun language, a Mande language of Mali This...
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    translated fiction from English, obtained a doctorate with a dissertation on Olav Duun, and published books about the writer Torborg Nedreaas. Her fiction debut...
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    Rolf Krake (1910) by F. Schanz, the novel Juvikingerne (1918–1923) by Olav Duun, the comedy Der entfesselte Wotan (1923) by Ernst Toller, the novel Wotan...
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    Valéry, António Correia de Oliveira, Miguel Unamuno, Kostis Palamas, Olav Duun, Jarl Hemmer, Karel Capek, Benedetto Croce, Roger Martin du Gard (awarded...
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    Moldvikfjellet is the highest point on the island. The Norwegian writer Olav Duun was born in the village of Dun, in the central part of the island, where...
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    People of Juvik is a series of six historical novels by Norwegian author Olav Duun. The books chronicle the lives of the Juvikings, an old Norwegian landowning...
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    were newly nominated: Thomas Mann (awarded in 1929), Max Neuburger and Olav Duun. There were two female nominees namely the Italian novelists Grazia Deledda...
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    1939), Johannes V. Jensen (awarded in 1944), Paul Valéry, Kostis Palamas, Olav Duun, and H. G. Wells. Nine of the nominees were newly nominated namely Percival...
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  • literature at the University of Oslo. She has published on Arne Garborg and Olav Duun, among others. She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and...
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