Aslaug Låstad Lygre (12 December 1910 – 19 December 1966) was a Norwegian poet.

Life

Lygre was born in

Lindås Lindås is a former municipality in the Nordhordland district in the old Hordaland county, Norway. It existed from 1838 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020 when it was merged into the new Alver Municipality. The administrative centre of the ...

. When she

finished Finished may refer to: * ''Finished'' (novel), a 1917 novel by H. Rider Haggard * ''Finished'' (film), a 1923 British silent romance film * "Finished" (short story), a science fiction short story by L. Sprague de Camp See also *Finishing (disa ...

her secondary education at

Voss Voss () is a municipality and a traditional district in Vestland county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages include Bolstadøyri, Borstrondi, Evanger, Kvitheim, Mjølfjell, Opphe ...

in 1932, she had already attended Fana Folk High School. In 1934 she finished commerce school in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

. She worked in the newspaper ''

Gula Tidend ''Gula Tidend'' (meaning ''Gula Times'') is a former Norwegian newspaper. It was established in 1904 by Johannes Lavik, and disestablished in 1996. During World War II in response to the censorship of the occupying forces the paper temporarily en ...

'' from 1934 to 1935, and was a member of Vestmannalaget. From 1935 she had an office job, but worked part-time because of sub-par health. However, she also wrote both poems and articles in publications such as ''Gula Tidend'', ''

Bergens Tidende ''Bergens Tidende'' is Norway's fifth-largest newspaper, and the country's largest newspaper outside Oslo. ''Bergens Tidende'' is owned by the public company Schibsted ASA. Norwegian owners held a mere 42% of the shares in Schibsted at the end ...

'', ''Magne'' and ''

Norsk barneblad ''Norsk Barneblad'' (Norwegian: ''the Norwegian Children’s Magazine'') is a Norwegian children's magazine, issued monthly in Nynorsk. It was founded by Kristen Stalleland in 1887, under the name ''Sysvorti'', was renamed to ''Norskt Barneblad' ...

''. Her first poetry collection was 1943's ''No blømer alle rosene'' ("Now All the Roses Bloom"). In her next collection, ''Eld av steinar'' ("Fire From Rocks", 1948) she coined the phrase ''Vi skal ikkje sova bort sumarnatta'' ("We shall not sleep away the summer night"), widely used today even out of its context. The poem was also given melody by

Geirr Tveitt Geirr Tveitt (born Nils Tveit; 19 October 1908 – 1 February 1981) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. Tveitt was a central figure of the national movement in Norwegian cultural life during the 1930s. Life Early years Tveitt was born in Be ...

. Her next releases were ''Den einsame roaren'' (1952), ''Rit di rune'' (1957), ''Fest i september'' (1960) and ''Primulakveld'' (1964). In 1964 she won the Gyldendal's Endowment. She died on 20 December 1966 in Bergen. A monument to her was erected in Lindås in 1982.

References

1910 births 1966 deaths People from Lindås 20th-century Norwegian poets Norwegian women poets 20th-century Norwegian women writers 20th-century Norwegian journalists {{Norway-writer-stub