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...composer with a predilection for American subjects, Moore chose a hard story of Norwegian pioneers in Dakota Territory. Arnold (Down in the Valley) Sundgaard carved a three-act libretto from Norwegian-born Novelist O. E. Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth...
...award of $50 went to Douglas C. Stenerson '42 of Kirkland House, for a paper entitled "Rolvaag, Immigrant." Stenerson, himself of Norwegian descent and a resident of Minnesota, discussed the life and novels of Rolvaag, who came to that state from the Land of the Fjords...
...readers remember the pioneer farmers of fiction. For one novel of the calibre of Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man, Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth or Hamlin Garland's Middle Border stories, a thousand others appear and are forgotten within the month they are published. A few, like Ruth Suckow's novels of Iowa farm life, are praised but little read...
...BOAT OF LONGING - 0. E. Rolvaag-Harper ($2.50). Posthumous novel by Minnesota's late great Norwegian author...
Died. Ole Edvart Rolvaag, 55, retired head of the department of Norwegian Language & Literature at St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minn.), author of Giants in the Earth, Peder Victorious, Their Fathers' God, best-selling novels of pioneer Norwegian life in the WTest, written in Norwegian and translated into English; of heart disease; in Northfield...