Olav Duun

He once lacked only one vote to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature,[1][2] and was nominated twenty-four times, in fourteen years.

[3] Røde Kors Duun was born in the traditional district of Outer Namdalen,[4] on the island of Jøa which is located in the Namsenfjorden in Fosnes Municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway.

In 1908, he was hired by the Ramberg school at Botne Municipality in Vestfold county, where he combined teaching profession with writing poetry.

Duun wrote in Landsmål, an amalgam of peasant dialects that developed into Nynorsk, one of the official languages of Norway.

In the garden, a memorial park has been constructed containing commemorative rocks with lyrical quotes from Olav Duun’s poems.