ANDERSEN, TRYGGVE

born Sept. 27, 1866, Ringsaker, Nor. died April 10, 1920, Gran novelist and short-story writer of the Neoromantic movement in Norway who depicted the conflict between the bureaucratic and peasant cultures. Born on a farm and educated at the University of Kristiania, Andersen was an office worker. The young Andersen was fascinated with German Romanticism, especially as seen in the fantastic tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann, but Gotthold E. Lessing developed Andersen's interest in literature and style. In his main work, I cancelliraadens dage (1897; In the Days of the Counsellor), short stories tied together by their central figure, Andersen portrayed the world of rural civil servants in Norway. His other novel, Mot kvld (1900; Toward Evening), dealt with middle-class narrow-mindedness. He also published four volumes of short stories. His diary of a sea voyage after the death of his wife and a son in 1902, Dagbog fra en sjreise (Journal of a Sea Voyage), appeared in 1923.