Kolbjørn Hauge (2 April 1926 – 15 August 2007) was a Norwegian schoolteacher, crime fiction and non-fiction writer. He was awarded the

Riverton Prize The Riverton Prize () is a literature award given annually to the best work of Norwegian crime fiction (novel, short story, play, original screenplay). The prize is named after the Norwegian journalist and author Sven Elvestad (1884-1934) who pub ...

for 1995 for the crime novel ''Død mann i boks''.

Early and personal life

Hauge was born at Kyrkjøy on

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. He was the son of Kolbein Andersson Hauge (1889–1972) and Marianne Rasmusdotter Auglænd (1893–1967). His brother was journalist, novelist, poet and historian Alfred Hauge (1915–1986). Hauge grew up in a pietistic rural environment. He had a versatile career including a gardener, fisherman, roadworker, clerk and sailor before embarking on a career in education. He obtained a teacher's degree at

Stord/Haugesund University College Stord/Haugesund University College (HSH), Norwegian: Høgskolen Stord/Haugesund) was a medium sized state university college in Norway before it was merged with Bergen University College and Sogn og Fjordane University College to become HVL. The ...

which he attended from 1947-51.

Literary career

His non-fiction books include the textbooks in

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

''Barn og historie'' (1984) and ''Ungdom og historie'' (1986). Further the political history ''Fra protest til parti'' (1987), and the

linguistic Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

books ''Historien om hvordan lydene fikk bokstaver'' (1986), and ''Stor norsk rimordbok'' from 1990. He made his crime fiction debut in 1991 with the novel ''Kofferten'', and his literary breakthrough was ''Heit juice'' in 1993 for which he was awarded the Sunnmørsprisen. He won the

for ''Død mann i boks'' in 1995. Later books are the crime novels ''Til jord skal du bli'' from 1997, ''Over mitt lik'' from 1999, and ''Nord og ned'' from 2003. In 2004 he published the short story collection ''To perfekte mord og andre kriminelle historier''. He published the novel for young adults, ''Onsdagsranaren'', in 1991, and his children's book ''Hitlers labyrint'' was published in 1998. Hauge died in

Stavanger Stavanger, officially the Stavanger Municipality, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the ...

on 15 August 2007, at the age of 81.

References

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