Kristian Elster (born 1881)
Kristian Elster was a Norwegian novelist, literary historian, theatre critic, and biographer.
Biography
Kristian Elster was born in Trondheim, Norway on 17 March 1881 as the son of the author Kristian Elster and Sanna Fasting. In 1888, he moved with his mother to Kristiania. He married Ragnhild Poulsen in 1920, and was the father of Torolf Elster.He was educated as a lawyer, and in 1908 he became a secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture.
Elster published 40 novels, plays, and narratives. He made his literary début in 1907 with the story collection . His literary breakthrough was the trilogy of novels, and . He wrote the two-volume literary history, published in 1923–24.
In 1941, he was awarded the literature prize Gyldendal's Endowment.