Arne Evensen Garborg

Arne Evensen Garborg (born January 25, 1851, Time, Norway—died January 14, 1924, Asker) was a novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist, one of the first great writers to show the literary possibilities of Nynorsk, a language that many writers wished to establish in place of the standard Dano-Norwegian literary medium. The demand for social reform was central to Garborg’s life and work. Garborg was the son of a farmer, and his father’s suicide, the result of...