1. Gunvor Hofmo was a Norwegian writer, often considered one of Norway's most influential modernist poets.
11 Facts About Gunvor Hofmo
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Gunvor Hofmo's parents were Erling Hofmo and Bertha Birkedal.
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Gunvor Hofmo was raised in a working-class family among socialists, communists and anti-Nazis.
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Gunvor Hofmo's father's brother Rolf Hofmo was a sports official who was arrested during World War II and imprisoned at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
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Gunvor Hofmo was deported and murdered during the Holocaust at Auschwitz.
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Gunvor Hofmo was hospitalized in 1943 for depression, starting a lifelong struggle with mental illness.
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Gunvor Hofmo was in Paris in the autumn of 1947 and in Brittany in the spring of 1950.
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Gunvor Hofmo made several trips to Copenhagen and traveled to Stockholm, Amsterdam and London.
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Gunvor Hofmo wrote essays for publication, primarily in the daily newspaper Dagbladet.
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Gunvor Hofmo published five poetry collections between 1946 and 1955.
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In 1947, Gunvor Hofmo moved in with another writer, Astrid Tollefsen became one of the first Norwegians living in an openly lesbian relationship.