Sigmund Strømme (8 April 1923 – 26 March 2008) was a Norwegian literary scholar and publisher.

Biography

Strømme 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 administra ...

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, Norway. He was born to parish priest Sigvard Arnoldus Strømme and Helga Myhre, and was married to schoolteacher Inger-Johanne Hafsahl Karset. Strømme became cand.philol. in 1949. From 1955 he was assigned with the publishing house

J. W. Cappelens Forlag J.W. Cappelens Forlag, usually referred to as Cappelen, was one of the oldest publishing houses of Norway. J.W. Cappelens Forlag was founded in 1829 by Jørgen Wright Cappelen, of the distinguished Cappelen family. Torger Baardseth was the direct ...

, first as editor, from 1973 to 1987 as managing director (jointly with

Jan Wiese Jan Wiese (4 March 1928 – 5 July 2014) was a Norwegian publisher and novelist. Wiese was hired as chief financial officer in Cappelens Forlag in 1964, became assisting director in 1965 and chief executive officer (joint with Sigmund Strømme) f ...

, and then as chairman of the board from 1987 to 1997. Strømme was board member of the

Norwegian Publishers' Association The Norwegian Publishers' Association ( no, Den norske Forleggerforening) is a publishing house association in Norway. It was established in 1895 by William Martin Nygaard as a sub-group of the Norwegian Booksellers Association. The two separated i ...

, a member of the Norwegian Language Council (''

Norsk språkråd The Language Council of Norway ( no, Språkrådet, ) is the consultative body of the Norwegian state on language issues. It was established in 2005 and replaced the Norwegian Language Council (, ) which existed from 1974 to 2005. It is a subsidiar ...

''), board member of The Norwegian Book Club (''Den norske Bokklubbenn'') and board member of

Nationaltheatret The National Theatre in Oslo ( no, Nationaltheatret) is one of Norway's largest and most prominent venues for performance of dramatic arts. History The theatre had its first performance on 1 September 1899 but can trace its origins to Christiani ...

. He received the

Ossietzky Award The Ossietzky Award ( no, Ossietzkyprisen ) is a prize awarded by the Norwegian chapter of P.E.N., for extraordinary contributions to freedom of speech. The prize is named after writer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Carl von Ossietzky. Recipie ...

in 2001. He died in

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in 2008.

References

1923 births 2008 deaths People from Vardø Norwegian publishers (people) Norwegian literary historians {{Norway-historian-stub