Hanna Astrup Larsen

Hanna Astrup Larsen (Decorah, 1873-Elmsford, 1945) was a Norwegian-American writer, literary editor, and translator.

[5] Hanna Astrup Larsen's early career began with editing roles at a number of Scandinavian-American newspapers, including the Norwegian language Amerika (Madison, Wisconsin) and the Swedish/English language Pacific Posten (San Francisco, California).

[2] Larsen was the author of Knut Hamsun (Alfred A. Knopf, 1922), a biography of the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun;[8][9] she also wrote Selma Lagerlöf (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1936),[10][11] a biography of the Swedish author; in 1909, Lagerlöf was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

[2] Larsen translated a number of Danish-language story collections and books, which were republished in the United States, including Jens Peter Jacobsen's Marie Grubbe (published in English in 1917) and Niels Lyhne (published in English in 1919) and Twelve Stories by Steen Steensen Blicher.

[2][13] Hanna Astrup Larsen was acknowledged to be "the first female editor-in-chief of a Norwegian language paper in America" when she was hired by Olaf Tveitmoe, publisher of San Francisco-based, newspaper Pacific Posten.