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Paul Lorck Eidem (22 October 1909 – 24 September 1992) was a Norwegian writer and illustrator. He was born in

Horten is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the town of Åsgårdstrand an ...

, in

Vestfold Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered th ...

county,

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. He grew up on the island Bastøy, where his stepfather was the warden of the special school for boys. Eidem was known in his time for books such as ''En herre på byen'' (1941), ''En herre på nye veier'' (1942) and ''Eva – den store suksex'' (1958). He published the humorous book ''Juridisk billedbok'' together with

Albert Wiesener Albert Wiesener (3 January 1902 – 27 June 1986) was a Norwegian lawyer. He graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1925, he studied in Berlin from 1926 and 1927. He joined the Norwegian Fascist party Nasjonal Samling (NS), which was establish ...

, as well as children's books and non-fiction books about

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. In addition to writing he was an illustrator and marketer by occupation. He died in late 1992. In later years, his books have been used as sources on the

cultural history Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the ...

of the day, especially

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References

1909 births 1992 deaths Norwegian illustrators Norwegian marketing people People from Horten Artists from Oslo Writers from Oslo 20th-century Norwegian writers 20th-century Norwegian male writers {{Norway-writer-stub