Aimée Sommerfelt
Aimée Sommerfelt was a Norwegian writer of numerous children's books and young adult novels.
Biography
She was born as Nicoline Aimée Dedichen, the daughter of a psychiatrist, Henrik Arnold Thaulow Dedichen and Antoinette Pauline Marie "Toinon" Nyblin .She was most famous for her 1959 work The Road to Agra. In 1961, it became her first book to be published in the United States, being translated into English by Evelyn Ramsden. Her books usually highlighted issues of social justice. They placed child protagonists in extremely difficult circumstances, such as poverty and wartime.
She married linguist Alf Sommerfelt.
She became blind late in her life.