Halldis Moren Vesaas

Halldis Moren Vesaas (18 November 1907 – 8 September 1995) was a Norwegian poet, translator and writer of children's books.

They settled on the Midtbø farm in Vinje in Telemark County where her husband worked as a teacher (1941–43).

Her more notable books of poetry would include Speech of Troubled Times (Tung tids tale), The Tree (Treet), In a Different Forest (I ein annan skog) and House of Life (Livshus).

She composed and translated for the theater, especially Det Norske Teatret in Oslo, wrote articles on various topics and was an external publishing consultant.

Her writing won great acclaim in Norway for her brave and personal expressions of women's life in its several stages: youth, marriage, motherhood, widowhood and second love in old age.

Midtbø in Vinje, site of the home of novelist Tarjei Vesaas and poet Halldis Moren Vesaas