Haakon Lie (29 February 1884 – 18 January 1970) was a Norwegian

forester A forester is a person who practises forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests. Foresters engage in a broad range of activities including ecological restoration and management of protected areas. Foresters manage forests to ...

, novelist, poet and children's writer.

Personal life

Lie was born in

Fyresdal Fyresdal is a municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Vest-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Moland. The municipality of ''Moland' ...

to writer Jonas Lie (1846–1916) and Torbjørg Rinden, and married Hjørdis Dorthea Smevig Dahl in 1911.

Forestry

Lie graduated from the forest school in

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in 1904, and from the

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in 1907. He lectured at the agricultural school in

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from 1910 to 1918, and at the forest school in Steinkjer from 1918 to 1923. From 1923 to 1947 he was appointed forester in southern

Gudbrandsdalen Gudbrandsdalen (; en, Gudbrand Valley) is a valley and traditional district in the Norwegian county of Innlandet (formerly Oppland). The valley is oriented in a north-westerly direction from Lillehammer and the lake of Mjøsa, extending towar ...

. Among his works in forestry are ''Skogens fugler og insekter'', ''Lærebok i Skogbotanik'', ''Skogbrukets driftslære'' and ''Fjellskogen''.

Literary career

His children's books include ''Ekorngutten'' (1928), ''Nord i elvelandet'' (1933), ''Fuglane ved det gode berget'' (1959) and ''I villdyrskog'' (1961). Among his poetry collections are ''Ættarhaugen'' from 1929, ''Solspelet'' from 1931, and ''Fløyta og fela'' from 1943. ''Villmark og villdyr'' from 1949 portrays forests and animal life. He was awarded the

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in 1950.

References

1884 births 1970 deaths People from Fyresdal Norwegian children's writers Norwegian male novelists 20th-century Norwegian poets Norwegian male poets 20th-century Norwegian novelists 20th-century Norwegian male writers {{Norway-writer-stub