Hans Braarvig
Norwegian writer
Hans Braarvig (17 April 1905 – 11 February 1986) was a Norwegian writer.
He was born in Lillesand. He is best known as a crime writer, young adult fiction writer and novelist, partly under the pseudonym Haakon Bjerre. He was awarded the Bastian Prize for translation in 1966.
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