Gösta Hammarlund (30 January 1903 – 12 July 1987) was a Norwegian illustrator and journalist.

Biography

Gustav Harald Hammarlund was born in

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. He was the son of ship owner

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(1857-1933). He grew up in Stockholm with the Hammarlund family. He came to Norway as a 13 year old and started at Halling Skole at Kristiania (now Oslo). In 1922, he graduated from Oslo Commerce School (''Oslo Handelsgymnasium''). He worked as an office manager in the shipping business of his father until 1937. He started working for the newspaper ''

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'' with his own daily comic strip in 1940. From the early 1950s, he had a daily column on ''Dagbladets third page. In the post-World War II period, he initiated a working relationship with sports editor

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(1906–1983) which resulted in drawings and portraits for weekly Saturday interviews in ''Dagbladet''. Among his books are the novel ''Møte med fru Brontze'' from 1939 and ''Berømte elskovspar'' from 1951. He illustrated several books by other writers. He was awarded the

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(''Narvesenprisen'') in 1956 and the Oslo Cultural Prize (''Oslo kommunes kulturpris'') in 1977.

References

1903 births 1987 deaths Journalists from Stockholm 20th-century Norwegian illustrators Norwegian columnists Norwegian comics artists Norwegian magazine illustrators 20th-century Norwegian writers Burials at Vestre gravlund 20th-century Norwegian journalists {{norway-artist-stub