Olav Gullvåg (31 December 1885 – 25 September 1961) was a Norwegian playwright, novelist, poet, and editor. He was born in

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. He worked as editor-in-chief of '' Søndmøre Folkeblad'' from 1911 to 1912, '' Norig'' from 1912 to 1921, and '' Gula Tidend'' from 1921 to 1929. From 1920 to 1926 he was the chairman of the

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, the youth wing of the

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. He published several novels, plays and poems, including ''

The Saint Olav Drama ''Saint Olav Drama'' () is an outdoor theatre performance played every end of July in Stiklestad in Verdal Municipality, Norway. The play commemorates the Battle of Stiklestad that took place in the year 1030, and which resulted in death of King ...

'' composed in 1930 and staged annually in

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since 1954. His novels include the cycle of books from the history of the

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county which take place in the 18th century; these were extraordinarily successful especially abroad (they were translated into Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, German, Russian, Dutch, French, Czech, Hungarian, Italian and Latvian). In 1938 he was awarded the

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for his first Telemark novel ''Det byrja ei jonsoknatt''. His son was the philosopher

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(1925–1998).

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1885 births 1961 deaths Norwegian male poets Norwegian newspaper editors Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Writers from Trondheim Norwegian male novelists Norwegian male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Norwegian poets 20th-century Norwegian novelists 20th-century Norwegian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Norwegian male writers {{Playwright-stub