Haakon Bugge Mahrt (1901–1990) was a Norwegian writer and attaché. He was born in

Vardø ( fi, Vuoreija, fkv, Vuorea, se, Várggát) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county in the extreme northeastern part of Norway. Vardø is the easternmost town in Norway, more to the east than Saint Petersburg or Istanbul. The administr ...

and took the ''licencié ès lettres'' degree in

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in 1928. He worked at the Norwegian embassy in Paris as a press attaché from 1946 to 1971. Books include ''Modernisme'' (1931), ''Kjære Europa'' (1932), ''Orkanen'' (1936), ''Bitter té'' (1945), ''Dikteren og eventyreren Arthur Rimbaud'' (1945) and ''Rømlingen fra Vardøhus'' (1961). He also translated John Steinbeck's novels "

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" and "

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" into Norwegian and is credited as one of the script writers for the 1948 French-Norwegian film "Kampen om tungtvannet."

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1901 births 1990 deaths People from Vardø 20th-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian essayists Norwegian expatriates in France 20th-century essayists {{Norway-writer-stub