Arnold Jacoby

Victor Arnold Rosenblad Jacoby (September 10, 1913 – January 15, 2002) was a Norwegian writer and translator. He produced a large volume of children's literature, comics, crime fiction, and biographies. He also worked as a translator of children's and young adult fiction from English into Norwegian.

In 1941, Jacoby won a competition with the short story "Mysteriet 'Robusta Gloria'" (The Mystery of Robusta Gloria). This was followed by the short story "Røntgenplatens hemmelighet" (The X-Ray Plate Secret) and the crime novel Døden annonserer ikke (Death Does Not Advertise). Under pseudonyms, he wrote the children's books Jon i verden (John in the World) and Krussedulle (Doodles). As an illustrator, he produced the comics Atlantis in Norsk Ukeblad and Bimba - hele verdens lille venn (Bimba: The Whole World's Little Friend). With Trygve Mosebek, he produced the comic the Cyklon-Kid (The Cyclone Kid) also known as Sabotasjegjengen (The Sabotage Gang). Jacoby wrote several biographies about the adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and Heyerdahl's half-brother Jacob Matheson. Jacoby's most influential book was the 1976 Det angår også deg (It Also Applies to You) about Herman Sachnowitz's time as a prisoner at Auschwitz.

Early life Jacoby was born and grew up in Brooklyn, The comic Atlantis was launched in the fall of 1942 and ceased when Norsk Ukeblad was shut down by the Germans in the spring of 1943. and he wrote several biographies about him, including Señor Kon-Tiki, which was published globally. The two of them lived near each other in the municipality of Andora on the Ligurian coast in northern Italy.

Jacoby's most influential book was Det angår også deg (It Also Applies to You), which deals with Herman Sachnowitz's time as a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp and was written in collaboration with him. The book was first published in 1976 and it has been translated into many languages.

In 1984 he published the book Min afrikanske gullalder (My African Golden Age), which describes the adventures of Jacob Matheson (Thor Heyerdahl's half-brother) in Africa.

Personal life In 1961, he bought an 800-year-old house in Andora, Italy, where he spent extensive time and worked. He was the father of Marianne Rosenblad Jacoby Steina, a translator, proofreader, and publishing editor at Fogdal Publishing, and editor at Bonnier A/S, the singer and writer Louis Jacoby, and the illustrator and graphic designer Tom Rosenblad Jacoby. He was married to Ellen née Dahl (1918–2012). Arnold Jacoby died in Larvik.