Magnhild Haalke (12 August 1885 – 18 October 1984) was a Norwegian novelist.
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Biography
Magnhild Camilla Kvaale was born in Vikna Municipality
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, an island municipality off the Namdalen
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coast in Nord-Trøndelag
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county, Norway. She was the second of ten children born to Knut Kvaale (1852–1942) and Kaja Augusta Wiig (1863–1948). She worked as a teacher for 30 years, first in Trøndelag, and later in Sør-Odal Municipality
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in Hedmark
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She made her literary debut in 1935 with the novel ''Allis sønn''. Her deep psychological insight and great environmental descriptions ensured her a lasting place in Norwegian literature. Eventually she wrote nearly 30 books. Haalke made use of strong, colorful language and lush figures of speech. Her novels often focused on adult insensitive treatment of defenseless youth. The role of the mother in childhood development was a frequent subject. In several books she wrote of values relating to childhood environment and family traditions.]Trøndelag
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. Her final work was her autobiography ''Mot nytt liv'', written at the age of ninety-two.
Haalke was awarded Gyldendal's Endowment
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in 1949 and the Dobloug Prize The Dobloug Prize (, ) is a literature prize awarded for Swedish and Norwegian fiction. The prize is named after Norwegian businessman and philanthropist Birger Dobloug (1881–1944) pursuant to his bequest. The prize sum is 4 * 150,000 Swedish crow ...
in 1980. She was the first recipient of Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment
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, which she was awarded in 1953 and which she shared with novelist, Lizzie Juvkam (1883–1969). From 1954, she received a national artist salary from the national government.
Personal life
In 1922, she married her second cousin, artist Hjalmar Kristian Haalke (1894–1964). She died during 1984 and was buried in the cemetery at Nordstrand Church
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(''Nordstrand kirkegård'') in Oslo.
Selected works
*''Allis sønn'', 1935
*''Åkfestet'', 1936
*''Dagblinket'', 1937
*''Trine Torgersen'', 1940
*''Rød haust?'', 1941
*''Kan vi bygge en bedre menneskeslekt?'', 1946 (lecture)
*''Karenanna Velde'', 1946
*''Kaja Augusta'', 1947
*''Grys saga'' (contains ''Åkfestet'', ''Dagblinket og Rød haust?''), 2 volumes, 1950
*''Kvinneverden'', 1954
*''Serinas hus'', 1955
*''Munter kvinne'', 1957
*''Dragspill'', 1958 (short stories)
*''Kommer far i dag?'', 1969
*''Sol og skygge'', 1971 (short stories)
*''Mot nytt liv'', 1978 (autobiographical)
References
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1885 births
1984 deaths
People from Vikna
People from Hedmark
People from Sør-Odal
Dobloug Prize winners
Norwegian women novelists
20th-century Norwegian novelists
20th-century Norwegian women writers