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Arne Garborg (1851–1924)
Garborg, Arne. A Norwegian novelist; born in Jæderen, Jan. 25, 1851; died in 1924. He was the son of humble parents, and prepared himself with difficulty for a school-teacher’s career. He took up literature as a means of expressing his theories, and produced the novels ‘Peasant Students’ and ‘Manfolk’ (1886), both of a rebellious and often displeasing realism, which brought him fame,—but also trouble, for the truthful portraiture in one of them cost him his post in the government service. His collected works appeared in 1909. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).