Hans Braarvig (17 April 1905 – 11 February 1986) was a Norwegian writer. He was born in

Lillesand Lillesand () is municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Lillesand. Some of the larger villages in Lillesand municipality include ...

. He is best known as a crime writer,

young adult fiction Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as family dysfunction, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality. It is characterized by simpler world build ...

writer and novelist, partly under the pseudonym Haakon Bjerre. He was awarded the

Bastian Prize The Bastian Prize () is a prize awarded annually by the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators. The prize, established in 1951, is given for translating a published work into Norwegian language. The award is a statue made by Ørnulf Bast, ...

for translation in 1966.

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1905 births 1986 deaths People from Lillesand 20th-century Norwegian novelists {{Norway-novelist-stub