He was married to Alette Elisabeth Wiland from 1929 to her death in 1941, and to nurse Sigrid Berner Høy from 1942.

He worked as a foreign correspondent for Dagbladet and Arbeiderbladet, in Great Britain and Ireland in 1929, in Finland in 1930, in Japan and China in 1932, and in Paris from 1938 to 1939.

[3] During the late phase of the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was arrested in Lillehammer and sent to Grini concentration camp.

[3] He was employed by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation as theatre director for Radioteatret from 1952 to 1973.

He received the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award in 1973,[3] and became Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1973.