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Author Description <i>Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.</i><br /><br />Gabriel Scott was a Norwegian author, poet, novelist, playwright and children's writer. He was born in Leith (now Edinburgh), Lothian, Scotland. He moved to Norway when he was seven years old, his father being a parish priest in Høvåg.<br /><br />Scott made his literary debut in 1894 with the poetry collection «Digte» («Poems»), and followed up with a second collection, «Dag» («Day») in 1895. His 1904 novel «Tante Pose» («Aunt Bag») was the basis of the film Tante Pose, 1940.<br /><br />His literary breakthrough was the novel «Jernbyrden» («The Iron Burden») (1915), which was well received by the critics. <br />His most famous book is the novel «Kilden eller Brevet om fiskeren Markus» («The Source, or the Letter about Mark the Fisherman»), 1918, a story about the fisherman Mark living a simple life and presenting simple thoughts. <br />In his book «Det gyldne Evangelium» («The Golden Gospel»), 1921, the main characters are Saint Peter and Our Lord, who are seen wandering and meeting people. <br />His books on the Norwegian travelling people, «Fant» (1928) and «Josefa» (1930) became popular, and in 1937 Fant was made into a film by Tancred Ibsen (the grandson of both Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson).<br />The novel «De vergeløse» («The Defenseless»), about a child taken from its mother by the authorities, was made into a film by Leif Sinding in 1939.<br /><br />Scott wrote several books for children, including «Sølvfaks som reiste ut i den vide verden» («Sølvfaks (Silver Mane) Who Went out into the Wide World»), 1912, which has since gone into many editions, and «Hellige tre konger» («We Three Kings»), 1900.

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