Johanna Bugge Olsen (10 May 1900 – 16 August 1973) was a Norwegian writer, newspaper editor and politician for the

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and the

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parties.

Biography

Johanna Bugge Olsen finished her secondary education in 1919, and then started working in the Labour Party press. In 1923 she joined the newly formed Communist Party. She was a member of

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city council, and stood on the ballot (third candidate) in Bergen for the

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and 1936 general elections. She became subeditor in one of the party's most important newspapers, ''

Arbeidet ''Arbeidet'' ("The Work") was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Bergen in Hordaland county. History and profile ''Arbeidet'' was started in Bergen as a socialist newspaper on 6 December 1893, by a grouping called . It was the first socialist d ...

'', in 1931 and was the editor-in-chief from 1938 to 1940. Financially the newspaper did not fare well, partly because the Communist Party prioritized to prop up ''

Arbeideren ''Arbeideren'' ("The Worker") was a daily newspaper published in Oslo, Norway. It was started on 2 November 1929 as the official party newspaper from the Communist Party of Norway, Communist Party. It lent its name from a Hamar-based Arbeideren ( ...

'', and ''Arbeidet'' was not released between 14 December 1938 and 30 March 1939. On 9 August 1940 (still with Olsen as editor) it stopped entirely because of the

occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...

. In 1949, during the

legal purge in Norway after World War II The purge in Norway after World War II was a purge that took place between May 1945 and August 1948 against anyone who was deemed to have collaborated with the German occupation of the country. Several thousand Norwegians and foreign citizens wer ...

, Olsen was convicted of treason for having printed "un-national" material in six articles in May and June 1940 prior to the closing of ''Arbeidet''. She started writing books, and first authored four books mostly about local trade unions: ''Femti år på sporet : Bergens sporvei 1897–1947'', ''Sporveisreparatørenes forening, Bergen 30 år'', ''Malersvennenes forening, Bergen 65 år 1884–1949'' and ''Malersvennenes forening: 75 års beretning 1884–1959''. She then wrote novels and

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, including ''Tine'' (1961, translated to Russian in 1963 and German in 1967), ''Løsgjengeren'' (1963, translated to English as ''Stray Dog'' in 1966), ''Den hvite wampumen'' (1967), ''Præriekyllingen danser'' (1968) and ''Vesle-kari blir voksen'' (1969, translated to Icelandic in 1973).List of publications
in BIBSYS She was married to (1899–1977), mayor in

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References

External links

''Stray Dog''
at

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