Per Sivle

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Memorial stone in Stalheim

Per Sivle (born April 6, 1857 in Flåm , † September 6, 1904 in Kristiania ) was a Norwegian writer .

Life

Sivle was born as the son of the drover Eirik Sivle in the municipality of Aurland in the Fylke Sogn og Fjordane . When he was two years old, his mother Susanna Andersdotter Ryum died and his father moved with him to Stalheim in the municipality of Voss in Hordaland . From 1883 to 1891 Sivle worked as a journalist for the newspapers Buskeruds Amtstidende and Kristianiaposten . Sivle also lived in Denmark , Germany and England for some time .

He was married to Wenche von der Lippe Nilsen and had a daughter, Susanna, born in 1888 .

Sivle committed 1904 suicide . He was buried in Drammen . In 1909 a memorial stone was erected in Stalheim.

Works

Novels

  • Strike (1891) - German strike (1906)

Short prose

  • Sogor (1887)
  • Vossa-Stubbar (1887)
  • Nye Vossa-Stubbar (1894)

Poems

  • En Digters Drøm. Tidsaanden tilegnet. (1878)
  • Noreg (1894)
  • Olavs-Kvæde (1901)
  • En Fyrstikke and other Viser (1898)

swell

  • Horst Bien and others: Meyers Taschenlexikon Northern European Literatures, Leipzig 1978

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personal data
SURNAME Sivle, Per
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Flam
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1904
Place of death Kristiania