Tryggve Andersen

Tryggve Andersen (born September 27, 1866, Ringsaker, Norway—died April 10, 1920, Gran) was a novelist and short-story writer of the Neoromantic movement in Norway who depicted the conflict between the bureaucratic and peasant cultures and who helped revive Dano-Norwegian literature. Born on a farm, Andersen attended the University of Kristiania (now Oslo), where he was a promising student of Egyptology, but he was expelled for the practice of “dissipations.” He became an office worker, perhaps...