Ragnvald Vaage (29 April 1889 – 27 June 1966) was a Norwegian poet, novelist and children's writer.

Biography

He was born at

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, Norway. His parents were Ola Larsson Vaage (1844–97) and Ragnhild Larsdotter Oppsanger (1855–89). In 1906 he started at

Voss Folk High School Voss Folk High School ( no, Voss Folkehøgskule) is a private folk school in Voss, Norway. The school is located at the village of Seim west of Vossevangen in Hordaland. It was established in 1895 by educators Olaus Alvestad Peter Olaus Alv ...

(''Voss Folkehøgskule'') at Seim where he stayed for two years. Then he spent a year at

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and studied horticulture. He later attended Askov College (''

Askov Højskole Askov Højskole is a Danish folk high school, that is located in the village of Askov in southern Jutland between Kolding and Esbjerg. It was founded in 1865 as an extension of Denmark's first folk high school, which had been established in 1844 ...

'') in

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. His first poetry collections were ''Liv som strir'' (1912), ''Bylgja'' (1913) and ''Strengspel'' (1914). Among his children's books are ''Gutane på Tedneholmen'' (1923) ''Den forunderlege vegen'' (1949), ''Den gode sumaren'' (1955) and the prize-winning ''Stivnakkane'' (1957). His novel ''Den vonde draumen'' (1953) was awarded with Sunnmørsprisen. He was married in 1916 with Dorothea Raunehaug (1892-1973) and was the grandfather of author and playwright

Lars Amund Vaage Lars Amund Vaage was born in 1952 at Sunde, Kvinnherad on the west coast of Norway, and studied classical piano at the Bergen Music Conservatory. He made his literary debut in 1979 with the novel Exercise Cold Winter, and has since published award- ...

Awards

Melsom Prize The Melsom Prize () is a Norwegian literary award. It is given annually to a writer or translator who writes in Nynorsk, for a work published during the preceding year. The prize was established in 1922 by the shipowner Ferdinand Melsom. The prize s ...

(''Melsom-prisen'') - 1942 (jointly with

Inge Krokann Inge Krokann (19 August 1893 – 27 September 1962) was a Norwegian writer. His most famous work is '' I Dovre Sno '' (1929), an epic story of the Loe family during the Middle Ages. Because his writing was full of local expressions and is so ...

) * Sunnmør Prize (''Sunnmørsprisen'') - 1953

References

1889 births 1966 deaths People from Kvinnherad 20th-century Norwegian poets Norwegian male poets Norwegian children's writers Norwegian male novelists 20th-century Norwegian novelists 20th-century Norwegian male writers {{norway-writer-stub