Hauge, Alfred

Hauge, Alfred

▪ Norwegian writer
born October 17, 1915, Sjernarøy, Norway
died October 31, 1986, Stavanger

      Norwegian novelist and poet, best known for his trilogy describing the life of a Norwegian immigrant to the United States in the 1820s: Hundevakt (1961; “Midwatch”), Landkjenning (1964; “Land Sighting”), and Ankerfeste (1965; “Anchoring”). The collected work was published as Cleng Peerson in 1968, and an English translation (under the same title) in 1975.

      Hauge grew up on a small island in southwestern Norway. Perhaps influenced by the Pietism of his home area, he studied theology, but eventually he became attached to a newspaper in the city of Stavanger, where he stayed as a cultural journalist until his death.

      Many of Hauge's books were concerned with religious and moral questions. Septemberfrost (1941; “September Frost”), his first novel, focuses on the miserable conditions in Norway before it achieved its independence in 1814. Ropet (1946; “The Call”) depicts the hostility of small-town pietism to art, a conflict that continued to inspire Hauge in several of his subsequent novels, all of which have small towns as their settings. Among his novels are Året har ingen vår (1948; “The Year Has No Spring”), Fossen og bålet (1949; “The Waterfall and the Bonfire”), and Ingen kjenner dagen (1955; “No One Knows the Day”).

      Kvinner på galgebakken (1958; “Women on Gallows Hill”) is a psychological detective story in which questions of guilt and responsibility are paramount. Hauge's most important novel in a religious vein is the visionary Mysterium (1967; “Mystery”). In it, a man suffering from amnesia finds his way to a cloister where he is guided by dreams and visions and eventually healed by a perception of religious truth. Expanding his mythical and imaginative style by interpolating into a realistic narrative apostrophes addressed to the reader, Hauge used the same cloister milieu in six more works constituting the Utstein Monastery series about human suffering and healing. They are Legenden om Svein og Maria (1968; “The Legend of Svein and Maria”), the book of poems Det evige sekund (1970; “The Eternal Second”), Perelmorstrand (1974; “Mother of Pearl Beach”), Leviathan (1979), I Rinbrads land (1983; “In Rinbrad's Country”), and Serafen (1984; “The Seraph”). Hauge also wrote travel books, stories for children, and several volumes of autobiography.

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