Olaf Bull (poet)

Olaf Bull

Olaf Jacob Martin Luther Breda Bull (born November 10, 1883 in Kristiania , † June 29, 1933 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian poet .

The son of the writer Jacob Breda Bull and his wife Maria Augusta Berglöf grew up in Kristiania. When he was thirteen, he lived in Hurum for a while while his father was writing. Bull started his own literary attempts in 1899 in the magazine of his high school. After finishing school, the family moved to Rome , from where he returned to Kristiania in 1903 to study there. Bull was a journalist for the Posten and the Dagbladet for several years . In 1909 he published poems with which he became famous in Norway in one fell swoop. Bull is the father of the poet Jan Bull .

Works

• Digte , Gyldendal , 1909.
• Nye Digte , Gyldendal, 1913.
• Mitt navn er Knoph , Narveson, 1914.
• Digte og noveller , Gyldendal, 1916
• Samlede graduated from 1909-1919 , Gyldendal, 1919.
• Stjernerne , Gyldendal, 1924.
• Metope , Gyldendal, 1927.
• De hundrede aar , Gyldendal, 1928.
• Kjærlighet , Gyldendal, 1929.
• Oinos og Eros , Gyldendal, 1930.
• Ignis ardens , Gyldendal, 1932.

Posthumous works

• Kjærlighetens farse: tre akter , Aschehoug , 1948. Together with Helge Krog .
• Ekko og regnbue: notater fra en dikters verksted , Gyldendal, 1987.
• Olaf Bull: brev fra en dikters liv , 2 vol., Gyldendal, 1989.
• Ild and skygger: Spredte notater fra et dicterliv , Nørhaven, Viborg , 1991.