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He was born in Denmark in 1899 to a Danish father and a Norwegian mother.
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Aksel Sandemose
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In his youth, he worked as a teacher, journalist, sailor and lumberjack in Newfoundland. In 1930, Sandemose moved to Norway, and lived in Nesodden, south of Oslo. After Nazi Germany occupied Norway during World World War II, he was forced to flee to neighboring Sweden in 1941 due to his association with the Norwegian resistance.
After the war, he moved back to Norway, and settled in Søndeled.
He died in Copenhagen in 1965, and was buried in Oslo. In his 1933 novel En flykting krysser sitt spor (A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks), Sandemose introduced the concept of the Law of Jante.
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