Ole Sarvig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ole Sarvig

Danish poet

Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1921

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 04-Dec-1981

Profession: writer, poet, author

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Ole Sarvig (Danish pronunciation:['o?l? 's??vi?]) (1921 in Copenhagen – 1981 in Copenhagen) was a Danish author and poet, known for his participation in the literary journal heretica.
In 1967 he received the grand prize of the Danish Academy.
In 2004 his 1943 work Regnmaaleren was included in the Danish Culture Canon.
He was a friend and mentor to the poet Michael Strunge, whose poem "December" remembers Sarvig's death by suicide in December 1981.
Like Sarvig, Strunge took his life by jumping from a building.