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Aksel Sandemose
Biography
Aksel Sandemose was born in Nykøbing, Denmark, in 1899. He left school at fourteen and worked at various jobs and travelled around the world before returning to Denmark. He wrote his earlier works in Danish and then emigrated to Norway in 1929, where his mother had been born. From the early 1930s he wrote all his books in Norwegian and started writing about Espen Arnakke, a sailor, based on Sandemose himself. As he had been critical of Nazism, he left Norway for Sweden when the Germans invaded Norway in 1941. He returned to Norway after the war and published the magazine Årstidene in the early fifties. He died in Copenhagen in 1965. His son wrote a kiss-and-tell a book about him, showing him to be a violent man and an alcoholic.
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Aksel Sandemose (in Norwegian)
Sandemose, Aksel in Danish)
Bibliography
1923 Fortællinger fra Labrador (stories)
1924 Storme ved Jævndøgn (stories)
1924 Ungdomssynd (novel)
1924 Mænd fra Atlanten (novel)
1927 Klabautermannen (novel)
1928 Ross Dane (Ross Dane) (novel)
1931 En sjømann går i land (novel)
1932 Klabavtermannen. Fortælling fra Havet (novel)
1933 En flyktning krysser sitt spor (A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks) (novel)
1934 Dødens agenter. Rustningsindustriens internasjonale (non-fiction)
1936 Vi pynter oss med horn (Horns for Our Adornment) (novel)
1937 Sandemose forteller
1937 Det stod en benk i haven (novel)
1937 Sandemose forteller (novel)
1938 Brudulje (novel)
1939 September (stories)
1940 Fortellinger fra andre tider (novel)
1945 Tjærehandleren (novel)
1946 Agnes min deilige sommerfugl (stories)
1946 Det svundne er en drøm (novel)
1949 Alice Atkinson og hennes elskere (novel)
1950 Eventyret fra kong Rascall den syttendes tid om en palmegrønn øy (novel)
1951-55 Årstidene. Brev fra Kjørkelvik 1-13 (essays, hefter. Hefte 7-8, 9-10 og 11-12 er dobbelthefter)
1954 Rejsen til Kjørkelvik (travel)
1955 En flyktning krysser sitt spor. Espen Arnakkes kommentarer til Janteloven (novel)
1958 Varulven (The Werewolf) (novel)
1960 Murene rundt Jeriko (biography)
1961 Felicias bryllup (novel)
1963 Mytteriet på barken Zuidersee (Mutiny on the Barque Zuidersee) (novel)
1965 Dans, dans Roselill (stories)