Daisy Schjelderup, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian writer (1916-1991)
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About Daisy Schjelderup
- Daisy Schjelderup (16 June 1916 – 16 October 1991) was a Norwegian translator and writer. She grew up in Oslo.
- During the German occupation of Norway she was for a time incarcerated in Grini concentration camp, from September to October 1941.She made her literary debut in 1976 with the poetry collection Torneroses etterlatte papirer, following in with the short-story collection Sangen om Landegode.
- In her later years she made a mark as a peace activist and issued the pamphlet Grasbrann.
- Brev til et menneske on Gyldendal in 1980.
- As a translator she issued, among others: Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own, Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Roald Dahl's Kiss Kiss. She was married to engineer Gunnar Monsen (1916–1982); as a widow she relocated from Aukra to Folldal and represented the Labour Party in Folldal municipal council, until 1989 when she stepped down due to health issues.
- She died in 1991 in Folldal.
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