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- Her følger biografien til Ole Rölvaag, slik den står i det databaserte amerikanske leksikonet Microsoft Encarta 95:
"Rölvaag, Ole Edvart (1876-1931), Norwegian-American novelist, born in Donna, Norway. He came to the United States at the age of 20 and did farm work before studying at Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where, from 1906 until his death, he was professor of Norwegian. He became a U.S. citizen in 1908.
In 1912 Rölvaag published Letters from America, a partly autobiographical account of adjustment to life in America. His two major novels, written in Norwegian, were translated together into English in 1927 as Giants in the Earth; they won him recognition for their realistic depiction of life among the struggling Norwegian settlers in South Dakota in the 1870s. This work was followed by two sequels, Peder Victorius (1929) and Their Father's God (1931), both written in Norwegian and translated."
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