Mons Lie was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 writer.

He was born in Kongsvinger

Kongsvinger

is a town and is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Glåmdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsvinger....

 as a son of the cousins, writer Jonas Lie

Jonas Lie

Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright who is considered to have been one of the Four Greats of 19th century Norwegian literature, together with Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Alexander Kielland.-Background:Jonas Lie was born at Hokksund in Øvre Eiker, in...

 (1833–1908) and Thomasine Henriette Lie (1833–1907). He was a brother of Michael Strøm Lie

Michael Strøm Lie

Michael Strøm Lie was a Norwegian diplomat.He was born in Kongsvinger as a son of the cousins, writer Jonas Lie and Thomasine Henriette Lie . He was a brother of Erik Lie and writer Mons Lie, and through the former an uncle of Nazi Jonas Lie...

 and writer Erik Lie

Erik Lie (writer)

Erik Røring Møinichen Lie was a Norwegian writer.He was born in Kristiania as the youngest son of the cousins, writer Jonas Lie and Thomasine Henriette Lie . He was a brother of Michael Strøm Lie and writer Mons Lie...

, and through the latter an uncle of Nazi Jonas Lie

Jonas Lie (government minister)

Jonas Lie was a Norwegian councillor of state in the Nasjonal Samling government of Vidkun Quisling in 1940, then acting councillor of state 1940–1941, and Minister of Police between 1941 and 1945 in the new Quisling government...

. On the maternal side he was a nephew of Erika

Erika Nissen

Erika Nissen, née Lie was a Norwegian pianist.She was born in Kongsvinger as the daughter of jurist Michael Strøm Lie and his wife Ingeborg Birgitte Røring Møinichen. She was the sister of Thomasine Lie, who married Jonas Lie...

 (Nissen) and Ida Lie, and a first cousin of Erika Lie, Karl Nissen, painter Jonas Lie

Jonas Lie (painter)

Jonas Lie was a Norwegian-born American painter. He is best known for colorful paintings of coastlines of New England and city scenes New York City. -Background:...

 and Eyolf Soot

Eyolf Soot

Eyolf Soot was a Norwegian painter. He was born in Aremark, and was married to actress Inga Bjørnson from 1892 to 1900. Among his teachers were Knud Bergslien, Karl Gussow and Léon Bonnat...

 and a first cousin once removed of Botten Soot. On the paternal side he was a first cousin of Bernt Lie

Bernt Lie

Bernt Bessesen Lie was a Norwegian novelist.He was born in Mandal as a son of stipendiary magistrate Emil Bernhard Lie and Nicoline Bessesen. Through his sister Ida, he was the brother-in-law of Gjert Lindebrække and an uncle of Sjur Lindebrække and Tikken Manus. Through his brother Vilhelm Lie...

 and Vilhelm Lie

Vilhelm Lie

Vilhelm Gabriel Heiberg Lie was a Norwegian civil servant.He was a son of Emil Bernhard Lie , a brother of Bernt Lie and a nephew of writer Jonas Lie...

, and a first cousin once removed of Emil Lie and Nils Lie.

His literary debut was Streif in 1894, and he wrote both novels, short stories, poems and plays. The novel Mand overbord (1904) is regarded as his best work.