Ragnar Vold

Ragnar Vold (22 November 1906 – 16 June 1967) was a Norwegian journalist, non-fiction writer and novelist.

He was born in Kristiansund as a son of William Benjamin Hansen Vold (1874–1943) and Helga Askevold (1875–1930), both teachers. He was a grandnephew of Anders Askevold. In May 1937 in Vestre Aker he married nurse Sigrid Marie Johanna Wilhelmsen (1913–1992), a granddaughter of Lars Aagaard Meyer. They had the son Jan Erik Vold, a poet. He was a minor ballot candidate for the Liberal Party in the 1953 election.

He died at the age of 60, in Oslo.

Select works

(completed by Reidar Anthonsen) (collected by Jan Erik Vold)