Willy Dahl

Willy Melkior Dahl (born March 26, 1927 in Bergen ) is a Norwegian literary historian and literary critic . He also works as a writer under the pseudonym Melkior Pedersen .

Life

Dahl's parents are the businessman Arne Dahl and his wife Lilly Pedersen. After graduating from high school in 1946, he worked as a seaman, journalist and chauffeur, among other things, before he began studying at the University of Bergen . From 1958 to 1963 he worked as a teacher at the Bergen Cathedral School . From 1965 he was a lecturer at the University of Oslo until he was appointed professor for Northern European literatures at the University of Trondheim in 1977 . In 1981 he moved to the University of Bergen, where he worked until 1995.

Among other things, Dahl wrote a textbook and Norges litteratur , an overview of Norwegian literary history, which appeared in three volumes from 1981 to 1989. In the 1970s he was also involved in the revision of Harald Beyer's six-volume standard work Norges literaturhistorie under the direction of his son Edvard . He also wrote literary reviews for the Arbeiderbladet newspaper .

Under the pseudonym Melkior Pedersen, he published his first volume of poems, Dikt , in 1968 , which parodies modern Norwegian poetry .

literature

• Horst Bien (Hrsg.): Meyers Taschenlexikon Northern European Literatures . Leipzig, 1978

Web links

• Items in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
• Øystein Rottem: Gate Edvin Dahl . Article from the Norsk Biografisk Leksikon (Norwegian)