Waldemar Carlsen

Waldemar Carlsen (29 February 1880 – 28 August 1966) was a Norwegian novelist, newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties.

He was born in Kristiania, and moved to Solør at a young age.

Carlsen remained in the editor chair until he quit his job in 1925 because he did not receive wages anymore.

[4][5] He unsuccessfully stood for parliamentary election as the deputy candidate of Fredrik Monsen in the constituency Hamar og Kongsvinger in 1918,[6] then as a ballot candidate in the Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland counties in 1921 for Labour[7] and 1924 for the Communists.

[1] He also published several novels, such as Dragsug (1910), Orion (1911) and Jernnæven (1913), and the travelogue Herjetog i syd og nord (1919).