Lauritz Johnson (September 21, 1906 – February 7, 1992) was a Norwegian novelist, children's writer, and radio and television host. He was born in

Nøtterøy Nøtterøy is an island and a former municipality in the present-day municipality of Færder in Vestfold and Telemark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Borgheim. The parish of ''Nøtterø'' was esta ...

, and was the grandson of

Gisle Johnson Gisle Christian Johnson (10 September 1822 – 17 July 1894) was a leading 19th-century Norwegian theologian and educator. Biography Gisle Christian Johnson was born at Fredrikshald (now Halden) in Østfold, Norway. He grew up at Kristiansand ...

. Nicknamed "Uncle Lauritz", he primarily worked on

children's show Children's television series (or children's television shows) are television programs designed for children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run during the early evenin ...

s, eventually heading the children- and youth department of the

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the larges ...

. He published the novels ''Mens vi venter'' from 1934 and ''Verden det er meg'' from 1945.

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1906 births 1992 deaths People from Nøtterøy Norwegian radio personalities NRK people Norwegian children's writers 20th-century Norwegian novelists {{Norway-bio-stub