Kristen Stalleland (6 February 1861 – 15 February 1949) was a Norwegian farmer, magazine editor, children's writer, biographer and translator. Stalleland was born in

Landvik Landvik is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1971. The municipality's area is now located in the western and central part of the present-day municipality of ...

. He founded the children's magazine ''

Norsk Barneblad ''Norsk Barneblad'' ( Norwegian: ''the Norwegian Children’s Magazine'') is a Norwegian children's magazine, issued monthly in Nynorsk. It was founded by Kristen Stalleland in 1887, under the name ''Sysvorti'', was renamed to ''Norskt Barneblad ...

'' in 1887, originally called ''Sysvorti'', and edited the magazine from 1887 to 1894, and from 1898 to 1904. He wrote several stories for children, a biography of Christian Jensen Lofthuus, and translated fairy tales into

Norwegian language Norwegian ( ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelli ...

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1861 births 1949 deaths People from Aust-Agder Norwegian children's writers Norwegian magazine founders Norwegian farmers {{norway-writer-stub