Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg

Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg (1902–1943) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, and journalist. He made his debut in 1922 with Omkring Kap det gode Haab which was followed by Skibet gaar videre in 1924. Grieg was known as an anti fascist and pro-communist writer, and in 1940 after the German invasion of Norway he escaped to England. In England he was educated as an officer, and was shot down and killed during an airraid against Berlin in 1943. When the war ended, Grieg became a hero in Norway because of his resistance to the German occupation, and a statue of him created by Roar Bjorg, is now placed at the east side of the theater in Bergen.

Selected works

• Rundt Kap det gode Håp, 1922 – Around the Cape of Good Hope
• Skibet gaar videre, 1924 – The Ship Sails On
• Stene i strømmen, 1925
• Kinesiske dage, 1927
• En ung manns Kjaerlighet, 1927 – A Young Man's Love
• Barabbas, 1927
• Norge i våre hjerter, 1929
• Nordahl Grieg, Herman Wildenvey, Tore Örjasaeter, Arnulf Överland: Dikter, 1930
• Atlanterhavet, 1932 – The Atlantic
• De unge døde, 1932
• Vår ære og vår mark, 1935 – On Honor and Our Glory
• Men imorgen, 1936 – But Tomorrow
• Spansk sommer, 1938
• Ung må verden ennu være, 1938 – May the World Stay Young
• Nederlaget, 1937 – The Defeat
• Dikt i utvalg, 1944
• War Poems of Nordahl Grieg, 1944
• Friheten, 1945 – All that is Mine Demand
• Flagget, 1945
• Håbet, 1946
• Samlede verker, 1947 (7 vols.)
• Samlede dikt, 1948
• Langveisfra, 1964
• Morgen over Finnmarksvidden, 1967
• The Defeat, 1967 (in Masterpieces of the Modern Scandinavian Theatre)
• Skuespill / Nordahl Grieg, 1975
• Norge, of´g andre dikt, 1976
• Et varig vennskap, 1981 (ed. by Brinkt Jensen)
• Reise gjennom vår egen tid, 1982 (ed. by Martin Nag og Finn Pettersen)
• Større kriger, 1989 (original title: Greater wars, trans. by Brikt Jensen)