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The love stories showed a conventional pattern of sex roles, but were relatively unprejudiced for the time.
Regular contributors were writers such as Aksel Sandemose, Sigurd Hoel, Arnulf Øverland and Helge Krog.
[4] Many later well-known writers, including Arthur Omre, Kåre Holt, Kjell Askildsen, Alf Prøysen, Tor Jonsson and Bjørg Vik, had their first published works in the magazine.
[5] Its editor for nearly forty years, Nils Johan Rud, received the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award, and was decorated Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St.