John Schjelderup Giæver (31 December 1901 – 9 November 1970) was a Norwegian author and polar researcher.
[citation needed] John Schjelderup Giæver married Oddbjørg Jacobsen in March 1940 and they had a son in April the same year.
During World War II, he first fled to London where he worked as a secretary for the exiled government.
To år i Antarktis (1952), describing the Antarctic Expedition was translated into English, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, German and Croatian.
From 1955 on he renewed his literary authorship with numerous books of documentary and partly autobiographical topics, covering Arctic trapping, fishing and warfare.
[6] Other books include Ishavets glade borgere (1956); Langt der oppe mot nord (1958), Rabagaster under polarstjernen (1959), Fra min barndoms elv til fjerne veidemarker (1960), Fra Little Norway til Karasjok (1964), Med rev bak øret (1965), Dyretråkk og fugletrekk på 74° nord (1967), Lys og skygger i sjøgata (1969), Den gang jeg drog av sted (1970) and Soldøgn og mørketid (1971).