Sigurd Christiansen

Sigurd Christiansen Wesley ( born November 17 1891 in Drammen, † October 23, 1947 ibid ), a Norwegian writer who wrote novels and dramas was.

Life

Christiansen was the son of the craftsman and Küsters Andreas Christiansen and his wife Maren Kirstine Saethre. He worked as a postal worker in his home town of Drammen, which is next to Oslo also one of the most important scenes of his novels. On November 12, 1916 he married Magdalena Johanne Melaaen.

Scripture Risch operated Christiansen had already as a teenager. In 1907 he published poems in magazines. His first novel, Seieren, appeared in 1915, and has been compared with the works of Dostoevsky. In his work, Christiansen primarily concerned with the psychology of his main characters, the real action plays a subordinate role.

Christiansen's biggest success was the novel To levende og en død with which in 1931 he won a competition. The novel was subsequently in several languages, including the German (two survivors and one dead ), translated and later filmed several times.

1940 Christiansen was awarded the Literature Prize Legat Gyldendals.

Works

Novels

• Seieren (1915 )
• Thomas Hergel (1917 )
• Indgangen (1925 )
• Sverdene (1927 )
• Riket (1929 )
• To levende og en død (1931 )
• Drømmen above livet (1935 )
• Det ensomme hjerte (1937 )
• Menneskenes Lodd (1945 )

Dramas

• Edmund year ( 1926)
• En travel i natten (1931 )
• Alexander Paulovitsj (1947 )