Inger Wenche Alver Gløersen (15 May 1892 – 2 March 1982) was a Norwegian

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and writer.

Biography

She was born in

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to teacher Johan Ludvig Alver (1848–1897) and Isabella Vibe (1870–1937). She was a great-granddaughter of Ludvig Vibe and a niece of

Amalie Skram Amalie Skram (22 August 1846 – 15 March 1905) was a Norwegian author and feminist who gave voice to a woman's point of view with her naturalist writing. In Norway, she is frequently considered the most important female writer of the Modern B ...

, née Amalie Alver. Her family lived in

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and

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during her youth. After the death of her father, her mother married Sigurd Høst (1866–1939). In 1900, the family moved to

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. In the same year, she became a half-sister of the newly born Gunnar Høst, who later married

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. Inger Alver finished middle school in Bergen before studying briefly at

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. In 1919, in

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she married forester Toralf Gløersen (1884–1959), who was a nephew of painter Jacob Gløersen and first cousin once removed of writer Ole Kristian Gløersen. In the 1920s, she returned to Norway and settled at the farm Glenne in Borre, with only 42

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s of crop. The marriage was dissolved, but she lived together with her son, who worked at the farm and as manager of the museum in

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. After turning sixty years old, Inger Alver Gløersen started writing books. Her literary début was ''Nikolai Astrup'' (1954, about

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), and her best-known book is ''Den Munch jeg møtte'' (1956, about

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). She later released ''Mefisto i Djævelklubben, Boken om maleren Ravensberg'' (1958, about Ludvig Ravensberg) and ''Min faster Amalie Skram'' (1965, about

). All books were based on personal experiences. She also wrote in magazines like '' Urd'' and '' Frisprog''. She died in March 1982 in Borre.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gloeersen, Inger Alver 1892 births 1982 deaths Writers from Bergen People from Horten Norwegian expatriates in Canada 20th-century Norwegian farmers 20th-century Norwegian writers 20th-century Norwegian women writers