Letter from Trygve Ager to Nora Solum, 1932 January 17
- Title
- Letter from Trygve Ager to Nora Solum, 1932 January 17
- Identifier
- p0584_05146
- p0584_05147
- Date
- 1932 January 17
- Creator
- Ager, Trygve, 1906-1975
- Description
- Trygve Ager was in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to Waldemar Ager and Gurolle Johanna Blestren. He graduated from St. Olaf College in 1929 and the same year studied journalism under a Scandinavian-American Foundation fellowship in Norway. He returned to the United States where he was copy editor for Nordisk Tidende, a Norwegian newspaper at Brooklyn, N. Y. and a small newspaper at Tenafly, N. J. until 1938.
- In 1941 he joined the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D. C. He was a co-founder of "News of Norway" at the embassy. In 1943 he co-authored a book with Bjarne Hoye, "The Fight of the Norwegian Church Against Nazism."After leaving the embassy in 1945, he joined the staff of the Albert Lea (Minn.) Evening Tribune in 1945, and in 1949 joined the staff of the Minneapolis Tribune in 1949.
- Funding to digitize the O.E. Rølvaag Papers was provided to the Norwegian American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.
- Trygve Ager's letter to Ole Rølvaag.
- During the 1930s he translated a number of books, including O.E. Rølvaag's "Their Father's God" and Johan Boyer's "The House and Sea." He headed a local chapter of the International Committee Nordmanns Forbundet (League of Norsemen) and was also a board member of the Wisconsin Institute of Scandinavian Culture.
- Language
- English
- Type
- Text
- Format
- Letters (correspondence)
- Contributor
- Solum, Nora
- Rights
- In Copyright
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- Bibliographic Citation
- [Indicate the cited item here]. O.E. Rølvaag Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.
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Citation
Ager, Trygve, 1906-1975, “Letter from Trygve Ager to Nora Solum, 1932 January 17,” Digital Collections, accessed October 17, 2026, https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/items/show/3008.