Arne Garborg, born Aadne Eivindsson Garborg (25 January 1851, Time

Time, Norway

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 - 14 January 1924) was a Norwegian

Norway

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 writer.

Garborg championed the use of Landsmål

Landsmål

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 (now known as Nynorsk

Nynorsk

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, or New Norwegian), as a literary language; he translated the Odyssey

Odyssey

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 into it. He founded the weekly Fedraheim in 1877, in which he urged reforms in many spheres including political, social, religious, agrarian, and linguistic.