Partner Conrad Malvin Bringe
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Sørskogbygda Kirke Cemetery
Elverum, Elverum kommune, Hedmark fylke, Norway
Åsmund Sveen (born 28 April 1910 in Sørskogbygda in Elverum , died 31 January 1963 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian poet .
Åsmund Sveen was a writer and critic. In the interwar period, he was one of the country's great New Norwegian poets and a respected critic in Dagbladet. But because he was active in the National Assembly during the war, he has long been forgotten after the war.
He was the son of farmer and trader Gudbrand G. Sveen (1868–1935) and Bertha Amanda Emilie Lundquist (1873–1947). From 1934 to 1953 he lived with photographer Conrad Malvin Bringe, son of shoemaker Ingebrigt Knutson Binge (1863–1913) and Jondine Severine Johnsen (1861–1929). In 1956 Sveen married in Stockholm to physiotherapist Ilse Hårleman b. Jönzén (1906–1976), but the cohabitation ended 1959.
Sveen published the collections: Andletet (1932), Jordelden (1933), Eros sing (1935) and Såmannen (1940) and the novel Svartjord (1937). His poetry is clearly inspired by vitalism . Sveen was a member of the National Assembly and a key cultural politician during the war. He was employed by the Ministry of Culture and Public Information from October 1940, and was appointed bureau chief in the propaganda department's cultural office on 1 January 1941. On 11 June 1942, he was appointed head of the Norwegian Theater Directorate . [2] During the treason settlement , Sveen was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison and served half the time. His life after the war was marked by depression, alcoholism and failing health. He was especially disappointed to meet behind closed doors at the publishers, especially at his regular publisher Gyldendal , when he saw that other authors convicted of treason, such as Rolf Jacobsen , had been taken back after serving their sentences. Finally, it was the former Grini prisoner Henrik Groth and Cappelen who took pity on Sveen and hired him as a literary consultant at the publishing house in 1959. They eventually also agreed to publish his own poems, just before his heart failed for good in January 1963. The same autumn came the collection of poems Brunnen and in 1966 Tonemesteren , the only one in Bokmål. In 1995, these two books of poems were published in a combined edition. [3]
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