Ole Edvart Rølvaag

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Ole Edvart Rølvaag ( Ole Edvart Rølvåg , born April 22, 1876 in Dønna , † November 5, 1931 in Northfield ) was a Norwegian-American writer.

Rølvaag came from a fishing and seafaring family and worked as a fisherman himself before moving to the USA in 1896, where he lived on an uncle's farm in Elk Point. He attended Augustana College and from 1901 St. Olaf's College , where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1905. He then studied for a year at the University of Oslo .

The Berdahl-Rolvaag House (Southeast view) in Sioux Falls ( South Dakota ). One of the former houses in Rølvaag where he u. a. Giants in the Earth wrote.

After returning to the United States, he taught Norwegian language and literature at St. Olaf's College. In 1908 he became an American citizen. In 1912 his first book was published in the Norwegian language Amerika-Breve (Letters from America). In 1924 and 1925 the novels I de dage and Riket gundlæges appeared on the Norwegian immigrant Per Hansa. His translation of both works into English was published in 1927 under the title Giants in the Earth .

Giants in the Earth was set to music by Douglas Moore in an arrangement by Arnold Sundgaard in 1951 . The work was also the first volume in a large-scale trilogy about the life of Norwegian pioneers in the northwestern United States. The second volume Peder Victorius was published in 1929, the third Their Father's God in 1931.

His son was the governor of Minnesota Karl Rolvaag .

Works

  • America Breve. (Letters from America), 1912
  • På Glente Veie. (On Forgotten Paths), 1914
  • To Tullinger. (Two Fools), 1920 (1930 under the title Pure Gold )
  • Laengselens Boat . 1921 (1933 under the title The Boat of Longing )
  • I de dage . 1924
  • Riket gundlæges . 1925
  • Giants in the Earth . 1927
  • Peder Victorious . 1929
  • Their Fathers' God . 1931

literature

  • Horst Immel: Literary design variants of the immigrant novel in American and Anglo-Canadian literature. Grove , Abraham Cahan , Rölvaag, Henry Roth . Peter Lang, Bern 1987 (Mainz Studies in American Studies, 21) Zugl. Diss. Phil., University of Mainz 1986
  • Axel Knönagel: Scandinavian immigrants on the American continent. The fictional versions of Aksel Sandemose and Ole Rölvaag. In: Informal empire? Cultural relations between Canada, the United States and Europe. Ed. Peter Easingwood, Konrad Groß , Hartmut Lutz. L-und-F-Verlag, Kiel 1998 (series of publications by the Center for Canadian Studies at the University of Trier , 8) pp. 401–414

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SURNAME Rølvaag, Ole Edvart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rølvåg, Ole Edvart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian-American writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Donna
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1931
Place of death Northfield