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Ole Edvart Rølvaag was born on the island of Dønna, Helgeland, Norway, the son of Peder Jakobsen and Ellerine Johanna (Olson) Rølvaag.
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"The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America." — The Nation Ole Edvart Rølvaag's classic Norweigian-American immigration novel. Giants in the Earth follows a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. The book is based partly on Rølvaag's personal experiences as a settler, and on the experiences of his wife’s family who had been immigrant homesteaders. The novel depicts snow storms, locusts, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, the difficulty of fitting into a new culture, and the estrangement of immigrant children who grow up in a new land. Giants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951.
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Susie Doheny, an Irish Catholic, and Peder Holm, a Norwegian Lutheran, fall in love and marry in South Dakota in the 1890s. Soon their marriage is tested by drought, depression, and family bickering. Susie believes they are being tested by their fathers' God. Peder blames Susie for the timidity of her beliefs; Susie fears Peder's pride and skepticism. When political antagonism grows between the Norwegian and Irish immigrant communities, it threatens to split their marriage. Against a backdrop of hard times, crisscrossed by Populists, antimonopolists, and schemers, Rölvaag brings the struggle of immigrants into the twentieth century. In Giants in the Earth the Holm family strained to wrest a homestead from the land. In Peder Victorious the American-born children searched for a new national identity, often defying the traditions their parents fought to uphold. In Their Fathers' God, Rölvaag's most soul-searching novel, the first-generation americans enter a world of ruthless competition in the midst of scarcity. The University of Nebraska Press also publishes Peder Victorious and Paul Reigstad's Rölvaag: His Life and Art.
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Written by the author of the Norwegian-American classic "Giants in the Earth", these six short stories reveal in miniature O.E. Rolvaag's profound understanding of human motivation and his gift for capturing Norwegian-American humor. In these stories - never before published in English - we meet several unforgettable characters, including three self-assured but happless fishermen, a jilted but vengeful farm girl, a new country pastor and his wife whose phone is monitored by their parishioners, and a retired farm wife who awakens to a new sense of self-determination in her marriage. This collection is a fitting complement to Rolvaag's sweeping novels of American frontier life. Rolvaag scholars and admirers, high school and college teachers, and anyone with an interest in immigrant fiction and the American West will want to read these stories by one of America's most famous authors.
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Ole Edvart Rølvaag was born on the island of Dønna, Helgeland, Norway, the son of Peder Jakobsen and Ellerine Johanna (Olson) Rølvaag.
He attended school between the ages of seven and fourteen and read diligently in the local library. Then he entered Augustana College, a Norwegian Lutheran preparatory school in Canton, South Dakota where he graduated in 1901. He earned a bachelor's degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1905, and a master's degree from the same institution in 1910. He also had studied for some time at the University of Oslo.
After his school education Rølvaag had been fishing for some years, the traditional occupation of his people. Later he decided to emigrate and, forfeiting the command of a beautiful boat, secured a ticket from an uncle in South Dakota. He landed in New York in August 1896, worked three years as a farm hand.
In 1906 he was appointed professor of Norwegian at St. Olaf College, and in 1916 became head of the department. In the summer of 1926 he suffered a complete breakdown, caused by heart disease, from which he only partially recovered. On December 31, 1926, he was created by King Haakon of Norway a knight of the Order of St. Olaf.
He taught again during the first semester of 1927-28, during the second semester was a guest of the Norwegian government at the Ibsen centennial, and returned to teaching in 1928-29.
On August 31, 1931, he resigned, intending to devote himself entirely to literary pursuits, but he died at his home in Northfield early in November of that same year. Rølvaag's childhood in Norway left a deep imprint on his literary work. This land of contrasts, with its dark winter and its midnight sun, stimulated his imagination and gave him his passionate love of the sea. His later reading added an intense cultural patriotism which determined much of his activity. He deplored the tendency of Norwegians in America to drift away from their racial culture, and sought to stem it by determined propaganda.
During the World War he was stung into activity by the "Americanizers, " and between 1918 and 1922 published three Norse readers and a collection of essays, Omkring fædrearven ("Concerning our Heritage").
From its founding in 1925 he was secretary of the Norwegian-American Historical Association. He wrote his first novel as a senior in college, an idyllic (and unpublished) effort entitled "Nils og Astri, eller Brudstykker av norsk-amerikansk Folkeliv" (". . Fragments of Norwegian-American Popular Life").
In 1912 appeared Amerika-Breve ("Letters from America"), professing to be letters written to father and brother in Norway by one P. A. Smevik and collected by Paal M"rck. This essentially autobiographical novel, like all his earlier books published in Minneapolis, was an attempt to reveal the gradual accommodation of the immigrant to his new surroundings.
In 1914 appeared the more ambitious Paa Glemte Veie ("On Forgotten Paths"). The war years left their deposit of bitterness in To Tullinger ("Two Simpletons"), 1920, which has been translated and amplified in English as Pure Gold (1930). Another novel appeared in 1921, Længselens Baat, published in English as The Boat of Longing (1933). It was inspired by Rølvaag's grief over the distressing death of his youngest child, and embodied more of the tremendous scenery of Norway and of his own lyric magnificence than any of his other books. Its purpose was to depict the tragic effect of American city life on the soul of a sensitive immigrant.
Rølvaag's earlier works were first issued in Minneapolis. National and world-wide fame came to him with the series begun by I de Dage ("In Those Days"), published in Norway in 1924, and Riket Grundlægges ("The Kingdom is Founded"), 1925, both translated in 1927 with the aid of Lincoln Colcord and published in America under the title, Giants in the Earth. The scene is South Dakota of the seventies. In the persons of Per Hansa and Beret Holm, Rølvaag embodied the glory and the tragedy of the immigrant pioneer. The book's success both in Norway and America was instantaneous and phenomenal. American critics were unanimous in acclaiming the integrity of Rølvaag's art and the validity of his interpretation of the frontier. The Nation (July 13, 1927, p. 41) called it "the fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America. " Vernon Parrington and Carl Sandburg gave it high commendation, the former praising Rølvaag's work for its "creative realism and brooding imagination. "
Within a few years of the book's publication in English it was translated into Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, German, and Hungarian. Two sequels followed: in 1928, Peder Seier (English version, Peder Victorious, 1929), and in 1931 Den signede Dag ("The Blessed Day"), translated in the same year as Their Fathers' God. These were well received, although their concern with the less impressive problems of the second generation in the land deprived them of the epic sweep of Giants in the Earth. Artistically Rølvaag found his models among the classic novelists of Norway, especially Jonas Lie, with later impulses from Knut Hamsun and Sigrid Undset. He fused in his work the scrupulous truth of detail demanded by modern realism with an essentially optimistic view of life.
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Rølvaag married Jennie Marie Berdahl of Garretson, S. Dakota, on July 9, 1908. They had four children.