Oskar Braaten

Oskar Braaten (born Nov. 25, 1881, Kristiania [now Oslo], Nor.—died July 17, 1939, Oslo) was a Norwegian novelist and dramatist who first brought the life of the factory worker to readers and theatregoers. Braaten was closely affiliated with the Norwegian labour movement, but his works are more concerned with depicting childhood and youth in the tenement houses of the east side of Oslo, where he grew up, than with an analysis of labour organizations or...