Ronald Fangen

Ronald Fangen (29 April 1895 – 22 May 1946) was a Norwegian novelist, essayist, playwright, psalmist, journalist and literary critic. He was born in Kragerø, and perished in a plane accident in 1946.

Fangen was a journalist in the newspaper Verdens Gang from 1913. He made his literary debut in 1915 with the novel De svake. Fangen was a member of the Oxford Group from 1934 and issued several religous publications in his later years. He received Gyldendal's Endowment in 1940.

Fangen was the first Norwegian writer to be arrested by the German occupants of Norway, in November 1940.^[1] Among biographers who have written about Fangen and his writings are Carl Fredrik Engelstad, Egil Yngvar Elseth, Reidar Huseby and Jan Inge Sørbø.

Selected bibliography

De svake (1915; novel)
Slægt føder slægt (1916; novel)
Streiftog i digtning og tænkning (1919; essays)
Syndefald (1920; play)
Fienden (1922; play)
Duel (1932; novel)
Dagen og veien (1934; essays)
Borgerfesten (1939; novel)
En lysets engel (1945; novel)
I nazistenes fengsel (1975; notes from prison, posthumously)

Awards

Gyldendal's Endowment 1940

Biographies

Carl Fredrik Engelstad, Ronald Fangen: en mann og hans samtid, 1946
Egil Yngvar Elseth, Ronald Fangen. Fra humanist til kristen, 1953
Reidar Huseby (ed.), Frihet, ansvar, tjeneste. Ronald Fangens liv og visjon, 1995
Jan Inge Sørbø, Over dype svelg. Eit essay om Ronalds Fangens aktualitet, 1999

References

^ Ringdal, Nils Johan (1995). "Fangen, Ronald". In Hans Fredrik Dahl (ed.). Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. pp. 91–92. ISBN 8202141389. Retrieved 2009-01-10.

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[kl-1] Ringdal, Nils Johan (1995). "Fangen, Ronald". In Hans Fredrik Dahl (ed.). Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. pp. 91–92. ISBN 8202141389. Retrieved 2009-01-10.

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