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Ole Edvart Rølvaag
Ole Edvart Rølvaag (Rølvåg in modern Norwegian, Rolvaag in English orthography) (April 22, 1876 – November 5, 1931) was a Norwegian-American novelist and professor who became well known for his writings regarding the Norwegian American immigrant experience. Ole Rolvaag is most frequently associated with ''Giants in the Earth'', his award-winning, epic novel of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in Dakota Territory.〔(Edvart Rølvaag'' John Heitmann (Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume XII: Page 144) )〕
==Biography==
Rølvaag was born in the family's cottage in a small fishing village on the island of Dønna, in the far southern district of Nordland county, Norway. Dønna, one of the largest islands on the northern coast of Norway, is situated about five miles from the Arctic Circle. He was born with the name Ole Edvart Pedersen, one of seven children of Peder Benjamin Jakobsen and Ellerine Pedersdatter Vaag. The settlement where he was born had no official name, but was referred to as Rølvaag, the name of a narrow bay on the northwestern point of the island where the fishermen kept their boats. At 14 years of age Rølvaag joined his father and brothers in the Lofoten fishing grounds. Rølvaag lived there until he was 20 years of age, and the impressions he received during the days of his childhood and his young manhood endured with him throughout his life.〔(Edvart Rølvaag, 1876–1931 In Memoriam'' ( Julius E. Olson. Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume VII: Page 121) )〕
An uncle who had emigrated to America sent him a ticket in the summer of 1896, and he traveled to Union County, South Dakota to work as a farmhand. He settled in Elk Point, South Dakota, working as a farmhand until 1898. With the help of his pastor, Rølvaag enrolled in Augustana Academy in Canton, South Dakota where he graduated in 1901. He earned a bachelor's degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1905, and a master's degree from the same institution in 1910. He also had studied for some time at the University of Oslo.〔(E. Rølvaag: Norwegian-American''. (Einar I. Haugen. Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume VII: Page 53) )〕
Rolvaag died November 5, 1931 in Northfield, Minnesota.
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