Willy Dahl | |
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Born | Bergen, Norway | 26 March 1927
Occupation(s) | Literary historian and literary critic. |
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Willy Dahl (born 26 March 1927) is a Norwegian literary researcher and literary critic.
Born in Bergen on 26 March 1927, [1] Dahl was a professor at the University of Trondheim from 1978, and at the University of Bergen from 1981 to 1992. He has written several books on literary history. He has been a literary critic for the newspaper Arbeiderbladet . [2] [1]
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