Ragnar Vold (22 November 1906 – 16 June 1967) was a

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journalist, non-fiction writer and novelist. He was born in

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as a son of William Benjamin Hansen Vold (1874–1943) and Helga Askevold (1875–1930), both teachers. He was a grandnephew of

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. In May 1937 in

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he married nurse Sigrid Marie Johanna Wilhelmsen (1913–1992), a granddaughter of Lars Aagaard Meyer. They had the son

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, a poet. During the 1930s he was a correspondent for the newspaper ''

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'', and was among the Norwegian journalists who most explicitly warned about the emergence of Nazism in Germany. From 1945 he edited the foreign affairs section of ''Dagbladet''. He was a minor ballot candidate for the

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in the 1953 election. He died at the age of 60, in

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Select works

* * * * (completed by Reidar Anthonsen) * (collected by Jan Erik Vold)

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1906 births 1967 deaths People from Kristiansund Norwegian expatriates in Switzerland Dagbladet people Norwegian anti-fascists 20th-century Norwegian writers 20th-century Norwegian journalists {{Norway-journalist-stub