Background
Ragnvald Skrede was born in Vågå in Oppland county, Norway.
Ragnvald Skrede was born in Vågå in Oppland county, Norway.
He studied at the University of Oslo (1928–1934).
Skrede was the youngest seven children. He was a student at Elverum teacher school (1921-1924). In 1928, he was hired as a teacher and sexton in Rauland, in Telemark.
In 1934, He became a teacher in Vågå.
In the postwar years, Skrede worked as a journalist and literary critic for Verdens Gang and Dagbladet and a theater critic for Bondebladet. Skrede was 45 years old when he began his writing in 1949.
As a poet, he often used the classic and permanent stanza forms. His authorship was humanistic and characterized by historic knowledge.
He was chairman for literary advice of the Norwegian Novelist Association (Den norske forfattarforening) 1970-1972.