Quote of the day
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.
Rolf Jacobsen

Born: March 8, 1907
Died: February 20, 1994 (aged 86)
Bio: Rolf Jacobsen 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 in 1933.