- Rudolf Nilsen
Rudolf William Nilsen (1901-1929) was a Norwegian poet and journalist. He was born in
Oslo . A child of the working class, Nilsen became part of the left-wing revolutionary movement and joined the organisationNorges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund .In 1921, he stood trial for smuggling illegal revolutionary literature into Norway. With the help of defence lawyer
Trygve Lie , he avoided sentencing, but was eventually found not guilty.In 1924, he married Ella Quist Kristoffersen, later
Ella Hval . Rudolf Nilsen's first published work was the collection of poetry "På stengrunn" (1925), which was followed by "På gjensyn" (1926). Many of his poems were political, while others were romantic or about life in Oslo.Nilsen died of a lung illness in
Paris on 23 March, 1929. "Hverdagen" was published posthumously the same year. His collected poems were published in 1935. New collections of his works were published in the 1970s.External links
*no icon [http://www.marxists.org/norsk/reference/nilsen/index.html Rudolf Nilsen poems and texts] by
marxists.org
*no icon [http://www.nrk.no/litteratur/forfattere/1108893.html Rudolf Nilsen biography] byNRK
*no icon [http://www.byarkivet.oslo.kommune.no/OBA/gallerier/Kjaerlighet/Rudolf_Nilsen/Rudolf_Nilsen_i_Byarkivet.asp Rudolf Nilsen] in Oslo City Archives
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