Occupation novelist Nationality German-Swiss-Norwegian Role Novelist | Language German Name Karl Kurz Resting place Holmedal, Norway | |
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Born September 22, 1878
Freiburg, Germany ( 1878-09-22 ) Died June 26, 1962, Fjell, Norway | ||
Karl Friedrich Kurz (23 September 1878 – 26 June 1962) was a Swiss/German/Norwegian novelist.
Kurz was born near Freiburg, Bremgarten, Markgraflerland in Germany. As a child he moved with his parents to Basel in Switzerland. He wanted to be a painter and entered the academy in Karlsruhe.
Coincidences made him a writer. He led a vagrant life with an extensive travelling activity in among others East Asia and Japan before he settled in Norway where he wrote novels in German. He was influenced by Knut Hamsun and got inspiration from the nature and folk life in the fjords of Sogn and Sunnfjord.
His novels enjoyed great popularity in Germany and were sold in great numbers. In 1934 he was awarded the Groser Schillerpreis by the Schweizerischen Schillerstiftung in Zurich.
He first lived in the area of Solund, then near Vadheim in Lavik before he in 1924 settled in Vardal in Dalsfjorden in Sunnfjord. He lived there until he in 1950 left his family and moved to Nessjoen in Fjell municipality at Sotra in Hordaland where he lived until his death in 1962, at 84 years of age.
The papers he left behind when he died are mostly lost.
Karl Friedrich Kurz is buried at the churchyard at Holmedal in Dalsfjorden, Sunnfjord.
Novels
Ten novels and a number of short stories. Among others: