1. Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg was a Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist and political activist.
22 Facts About Nordahl Grieg
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Nordahl Grieg was a popular author and a controversial public figure.
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Nordahl Grieg served in World War II as a war correspondent and was killed while covering a bombing mission to Berlin.
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Nordahl Grieg was the son of Peter Lexau Grieg and Helga Vollan.
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Nordahl Grieg was the brother of Norwegian publisher Harald Grieg and was distantly related to composer Edvard Grieg.
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Nordahl Grieg studied at the Royal Frederick University and spent time travelling abroad, sometimes as a tourist and sometimes as a sailor.
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At least one of Nordahl Grieg's poems, "Kapellet i Wadham College" was inspired by his stay there, where he was a contemporary of Cecil Day-Lewis.
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Nordahl Grieg spent 1927 as a newspaper correspondent in China, where he witnessed firsthand the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communists.
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From 1936 to 1937, Nordahl Grieg published the magazine Veien Frem, which initially succeeded in attracting prominent writers, but as the magazine adopted an increasingly Stalinist position relating to the Moscow Trials, most of them severed ties with it and it ceased publication.
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Compassion for the poor and the exploited led Nordahl Grieg to join the Norwegian Communist Party.
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The outbreak of World War II, and especially the German invasion and occupation of Norway, led Nordahl Grieg to oppose Stalin's policies.
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Nordahl Grieg was a staunch anti-Nazi and Norwegian patriot and committed himself in 1940 to the struggle against the Nazi occupation.
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Once in Britain, Nordahl Grieg served the Norwegian government in exile, and participated in making patriotic radio programs.
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Nordahl Grieg was commissioned in the Norwegian Armed Forces and served as a war correspondent.
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Nordahl Grieg's work involved visiting and reporting on Norwegian units around Britain.
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Nordahl Grieg met Norwegian servicemen on duty in Iceland and other remote outposts.
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Nordahl Grieg was attached to 460 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, which was based at RAF Binbrook.
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Nordahl Grieg was neither the only correspondent shot down that night, nor the only Norwegian.
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Nordahl Grieg became a hero in Norway because of his resistance to the Nazi Occupation.
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Nordahl Grieg is still popular in Norway, especially for his anti-fascist poetry.
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Nordahl Grieg was a friend of English novelist Graham Greene, who wrote about various aspects of Nordahl Grieg's life and wartime career in his 1980 biographical work Ways of Escape.
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In 2003, a memorial stone was unveiled at the site where Nordahl Grieg died in Kleinmachnow.