Johan Borgen

Johan Borgen
Born	(1902-04-28)28 April 1902 Kristiania, Norway
Died	16 October 1979(1979-10-16) (aged 77)
Nationality	Norwegian
Occupations	Author journalist critic
Notable work	Lillelord (1955)
Children	3, including Brett Borgen

Johan Collett Müller Borgen (28 April 1902 – 16 October 1979) was a Norwegian writer, journalist and critic. His best-known work is the novel Lillelord for which he was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1955.^[1][2] He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966.^[3]

Biography

He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of Poul Holst Borgen (1867–1941) and Andrea Elfrida Bommen (1868–1958). He was raised in the borough of

In 1925, he debuted as an author of fiction with the novel Mot mørket. With the novel Hvetebrødsdager (1948), Borgen achieved an artistic breakthrough, and he followed up with Noveller om kjærlighet (1952) and Natt og dag (1954). His semi-autobiographical novel Lillelord (1955) is his best-known book. Lillelord is the first book in the trilogy that also includes De mørke kilder and Vi har ham nå published in 1956 and 1957.[6]^[7]

Personal life

From 1934 until his death in 1979, he was married to novelist Annemarta Evjenth Borgen (1913–1988). The couple were the parents of three children, including the author Brett Borgen (1934–2014).^[8][9]

Awards

• 1945: Gyldendal's Endowment
• 1955: Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature
• 1965: Dobloug Prize
• 1965:
  Bokhandlerprisen
  for Lillelord
• 1967:
  Nordic Council's Literature Prize

References

Other sources

• Randi Birn (1977) Johan Borgen – En litterær biografi (Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag)
  ISBN 82-05-09287-7

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