Ragnvald Skrede

Ragnvald Skrede was born in Vågå Municipality in Oppland county, Norway. Skrede was the youngest of seven children. He was a student at Elverum teacher school (1921–24). In 1928, he was hired as a teacher and sexton in Rauland Municipality in Telemark. He studied at the University of Oslo (1928–1934). In 1934, he became a teacher in Vågå Municipality. 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 the year 1949. As a poet, he often used the classic and permanent stanza forms. His authorship was humanistic and characterized by historic knowledge. Ragnvald Skrede was a Norwegian member of the jury for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize from 1969. He was chairman for literary advice of the Norwegian Novelist Association (Den norske forfattarforening) 1970–72. He received Dobloug Prize for Literature in 1967 and the Norwegian Cultural Council Award in 1969.