Rolf Jacobsen

Rolf Jacobsen, born March 8, 1907In Kristiania (Oslo) and died Febuary 20, 1994 at Hamar - Norway. Could be said to be the first modernist writer in Norway. Jacobsen's career as a writer spanned more than fifty years. He is one of Scandinavia’s most distinguished poets, who launched poetic modernism in Norway with his first book, Jord og jern (Earth and Iron) in 1933. Jacobsen's work has been translated into over twenty languages. The central theme in his work is the balance between nature and technology - he was called "the Green Poet" in Norwegian literature.