Background
He grew up in the working-class neighbourhood Kampen in Oslo and his breakthrough was on the nationally broadcast children"s radio show Barnetimen for de minste in the beginning of the 1950s.
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He grew up in the working-class neighbourhood Kampen in Oslo and his breakthrough was on the nationally broadcast children"s radio show Barnetimen for de minste in the beginning of the 1950s.
Egner is particularly known for his books, Thorbjørn Egners lesebøker (1950–1972), and Folk og røvere i Kardemommeby (1955, translated 1976). The latter two were made into successful musicals. He also illustrated his own books
Thorbjørn Egner received the Olav in 1972 and Cappelen Prize in 1979.
In 1937, Thorbjørn Egner married Annie Eliassen (born in 1912 in Oslo). They had four children together.
Egner died in the afternoon of Christmas Eve 1990 in Oslo of a massive heart attack.
