Hans Braarvig
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Hans Braarvig was a Norwegian writer.
He was born in Lillesand
. He is best known as a crime writer, young-adult fiction writer and novelist, partly under the pseudonym Haakon Bjerre. He was awarded the Bastian Prize
for translation in 1966.
He was born in Lillesand
Lillesand
is a town and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Lillesand.-General information:...
. He is best known as a crime writer, young-adult fiction writer and novelist, partly under the pseudonym Haakon Bjerre. He was awarded the Bastian Prize
Bastian Prize
The Bastian Prize is a prize awarded annually by the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators.The prize, established in 1951, is given for translating a published work into Norwegian language...
for translation in 1966.