Trygve Bjørgo (5 January 1916 – 2 March 1997) was a Norwegian educator and lyricist.

Biography

He was born in

Nord-Aurdal Nord-Aurdal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Valdres. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town Fagernes ...

, Norway. He attended Valdres People's College and Grimeland School in

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. He took a linguistic diploma with Norwegian language major at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

in 1947. He taught at Grimeland School from 1948-1949. From 1949 he was a lecturer at Gudbrandsdal public school in

Vinstra Vinstra is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Nord-Fron Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality. The town is located in the Gudbrandsdalen valley, at the confluence of the Gu ...

where he lived until 1964. From the fall that year he was appointed as principal of

Valdres Valdres () is a traditional district in central, southern Norway, situated between the districts of Gudbrandsdalen and Hallingdal. The region of Valdres consists of the six municipalities of Nord-Aurdal, Sør-Aurdal, Øystre Slidre, Vestre S ...

secondary school at

Fagernes is a town in Nord-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality as well as the largest urban/commercial centre for the Valdres region. It is located just northwest of the village of ...

. He published several works of poetry, including ''I minneskogen'' (1952), ''Mørker og morgon'' (1954), ''Vokstergrunn'' (1961), ''Frø i vind'' (1968), ''Kvit hest under hegg'' (1972), ''Auke åkeren'' (1979) and ''Straumar under yta'' (1986). He won the Sunnmørsprisen in 1961 for ''Vokstergrunn''. He was the chairman of

Noregs Mållag Noregs Mållag (literally "Language Organisation of Norway") is the main organisation for Norwegian Nynorsk (New Norwegian), one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language Norwegian ( ) is a North Germanic language from th ...

from 1963 to 1965. he died during 1997 and was buried in the cemetery at

Aurdal Aurdal is a village in Nord-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the European route E16 highway about to the northwest of the village of Bagn (in Sør-Aurdal) and about to the southeast of the town o ...

Church.

References

1916 births 1997 deaths People from Nord-Aurdal University of Oslo alumni Norwegian educators Nynorsk-language writers Noregs Mållag leaders Norwegian male poets 20th-century Norwegian male writers 20th-century Norwegian poets {{Norway-writer-stub