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Olav Duun
Norwegian writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Olav Duun (21 November 1876 – 13 September 1939) was a writer of Norwegian fiction. He is generally recognized to be one of the more outstanding writers in Norwegian literature. He once lacked only one vote to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature,[1][2] and was nominated twenty-four times, in fourteen years.[3]
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