Per Hansson (Author)

Per Hansson

Per Hansson (born July 24, 1922 in Kragerø , Telemark , † June 12, 1982 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian journalist and author. He was a pioneer of documentary literature in Norway in the 1960s and his books, which mostly dealt with Norway under German occupation , had very high editions for the time.

Life

Per Hansson was born on July 24, 1922 in the small town of Kragerø in southern Norway, the son of master hairdresser Thoralf Hansson and Maren Elisabeth Larsen. After graduating from high school, he started working as an editor at the local daily newspaper Kragerø Blad and later also worked for other local daily newspapers in Svolvær , Sandefjord and Kristiansund . In 1947 he married the office worker Margot Thyra Pedersen.

In 1949 he was editor of the left-wing paper Sør-Trøndelag in Orkanger , five years later editor of Akershus Folkeblad in Lillestrøm . He shaped these small newspapers through the committed attitude of his articles, which always put the human dimension in the foreground. Politically, he was anchored in the social radical wing of the left.

In 1958 he became a permanent employee of the Dagbladet , a radical liberal newspaper, for which he worked in a broad thematic field until 1972, but soon specialized in social reporting. Subsequently, Per Hansson expanded his journalistic work, especially in the sixties and seventies, to write semi-fictional non-fiction books. 1972 Per Hansson left the Dagbladet. From then on he was able to live from the publication of his books.

Per Hansson died of cancer on June 12, 1982 in Oslo.

Work (selection)

In 1962 Per Hansson met Helge Morset, who told him about the moving history of the Morset family during World War II. As a result of this encounter, the book Og tok de enn vårt liv (Eng. And They Took Their Lives ) was published in 1963 , the first of a series of semi-documentary books. It tells the story of Peder Morset, his wife and son during the time of the German occupation in Norway.

In 1965 Hansson published his most widely distributed book Det største spillet (Eng. Game for Life) with translations in 10 languages. It was written in close collaboration with its real protagonist Gunvald Tomstad and filmed in 1967 under the direction of Knut Bohwim . The adaptation of the script was carried out by Sigurd Evensmo .

His third book, Hver tiende mann måtte dø ( Eng. One of Ten Had to Die, Eng. One in Ten Had to Die ), was published in 1967 and dealt with the fate of members of the Navy for which Hansson conducted hundreds of interviews. It describes the fate of the fictitious ship, the M / S Anna, which has to bring nitroglycerine and ammunition from the United States to the UK in a convoy and is sunk by the German Navy. The book was part of his longstanding campaign for the rights of members of the Navy and their survivors, for which he was also awarded.

With the biography of Kirsten Svineng , the Sami woman who took care of the Yugoslav prisoners of war in particular during the occupation of Norway and is known as Mamma Karasjok , Per Hannson also became known in Yugoslavia. The book was published in 1971 under the title Mamma Karasjok (dt. Mama Karaschok) . His book , published in 1975 in October 1941, was dedicated to the Kraljevo and Kraguljevac massacres in Serbia. For his efforts to help the Serbian war victims, he was awarded a medal by Yugoslavia.

In his book Den farlige våren ( Eng . The Last Way ), he described cancer himself, the cancer and the death of the 22-year-old student Ola Smedsgaard.

bibliography

• 1963 Og tok de enn vårt liv, Gyldendal Verlag, Oslo. ISBN 82-525-0574-0
• 1965 Det største spillet, Gyldendal Verlag, Oslo. ISBN 8205183678
• 1967 Hver tiende mann måtte dø. Fra konvoifarten under siste krig. Gyldendal Verlag, Oslo . 199 pages ISBN 8205138559
• 1969 game for life . Publishing house Volk und Welt, Berlin East. Translation by: Det største spillet. From the Norwegian by Rudolf Kähler.
• 1970 One in One Had to Die (translation by: Hver tiende mann måtte dø. Fra konvoifarten under siste krig) . George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Fontana Books.
• 1971 Mamma Karasjok. Gyldendal Verlag, Oslo . 254 pages.
• 1970 Pantheos: en hypermoderne, gresk tragedie. Tides. 19 pages.
• 1972 Mamma Karaschok , Kirsten Svineng's life for the sick and prisoners of war in Lapland. Translation by: Mamma Karasjok. From the Norwegian by tbl. Friedrich Reinhardt publishing house. ISBN 3724500491
• 1972 Hvem var Henry Rinnan? Gyldendal Verlag, Oslo. 209 pages. ISBN 9788205139114
• 1974 Mr. Gummistrikk og vesle Henriette, Gyldendal Verlag , Oslo. 24 pages. ISBN 8205068356
• 1976 October 1941, Gyldendal Verlag. 186 pages. ISBN 8205090351
• 1978 Den siste veien: Ola Smedsgaard, Gyldendal Verlag, Oslo. 158 pages. ISBN 9788205109797
• 1983 (posthumous) Den farlige våren . Together with co-author Johan O. Jensen. Gyldendal Verlag, Oslo. 270 pages. ISBN 8205130078

Awards

• In 1967, Per Hansson received the Gyldendal Foundation's prestigious literature prize ( Gyldendal Prisen ),
• 1968 the Norwegian Hirschfeld Prize ( Hirschfeldprisen ) for exceptional achievements in the field of journalism.
• Awards of the War Invalids Association and the Association of Navy Soldiers,
• Awarded the Order of the Yugoslavian Flag with a Star.
• In Risør municipality , a street was named after Per Hansson.
• In 2005 they honored the city of Kragerø Per Hansson by renaming the square in front of the town hall to Per Hansson Square.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arve Solstad: Per Hansson. Norsk Biografisk Leksikon, February 13, 2009, accessed November 3, 2017 (Norwegian). 
2. ↑ Det største spillet. Internet Movie Database, 1967, accessed November 3, 2017 (Norwegian). 
3. ↑ Jolande Withuis, Annet Mooji: The Politics of War Trauma. The Aftermath of World War II in eleven European countries. Ed .: Jolande Withuis, Annet Mooji. Aksant, Amsterdam 2010, ISBN 978-90-5260-371-1 .