29 Facts About Sigurd Hoel

Sigurd Hoel was a Norwegian author and publishing consultant, born in Nord-Odal.

Sigurd Hoel's breakthrough came with, which was made into a film in 1932 and in 2002.

Sigurd Hoel was the son of teacher Lars Anton and Elisa Dorothea Hoel and grew up in Odalen.

Sigurd Hoel worked for a while as an insurance salesman before he could begin his studies in 1910, during which time he supported himself with teaching jobs.

In 1919, Sigurd Hoel had a child born out of wedlock who was put up for adoption.

In Berlin Sigurd Hoel studied socialism, and there he wrote his first novel,.

Also in his younger years Sigurd Hoel was a radical along with mostly all his friends and sympathized with the Bolsheviks, already in the 1920s he critically commented on the course of the USSR young government.

Sigurd Hoel continued on to Paris, where he met Nic Waal, whom he married in Norway in 1927.

Nic Waal later said that Sigurd Hoel "exposed her whole generation" in this book.

In 1931, after Karl Nerup's death, Sigurd Hoel became a leading consultant at Gyldendal Publishers.

Sigurd Hoel was in charge of the Yellow Series, a series of modern foreign prose that soon became a landmark for the publishing house and became a "window" into international literature.

Sigurd Hoel established himself as an unbiased critic, who was not influenced by his own literary tastes, even if he felt a certain amount of scepticism towards modernism and experimental prose.

For each of the 101 books in the series Sigurd Hoel wrote an introductory article.

Up to 1960, Sigurd Hoel was the most influential literary critic of Norway.

Waal and Sigurd Hoel separated in 1932, in 1936 the divorce was finalized and the same year Sigurd Hoel married again, this time to Ada Ivan.

When Reich moved to Norway in 1934, Sigurd Hoel began studying psychoanalysis with him.

Since January 1934 Sigurd Hoel had received training analysis from Reich but the extent of his own practice as a therapist was limited to four patients.

Sigurd Hoel contributed to Reich's German language periodical and was the editor-in-chief of issues nos.

Sigurd Hoel joined the Norwegian resistance movement and wrote for the illegal opposition press, publishing at least 50 articles.

Sigurd Hoel was constantly facing the threat of arrest, when in 1943 the danger became too high, he was forced to flee to Sweden.

Sigurd Hoel had a short connection to the landsmal movement, but later played an active part in the riksmal campaign.

Sigurd Hoel was among the founders of Forfatterforeningen av 1952 and was the chairman of the Riksmal Society from 1956 to 1959.

Sigurd Hoel died of a heart attack at age 69 in Oslo.

In 1935, going through a mid-life crisis, Sigurd Hoel published the novel 14 Days to Frosty Nights.

Sigurd Hoel thinks that they are young and poor, and "there is no point in getting married".

Sigurd Hoel says nothing for a full minute, only the betrayal is reflected in his face, in his eyes.

From 1929 to 1959 Sigurd Hoel was the editor of the publisher's "Gold Series", where he introduced a number of foreign authors, often with an astounding foresight for which works would remain.

Sigurd Hoel wrote prefaces for all of the books, and the preferences are collected in the books 50 gold and The last 51 gold.

Sigurd Hoel explores the theme of guilt in his last novel The Troll Circle, published in 1958.