hitherto unknown in Norwegian public discourse, like Michel Foucault (1926–1984) among others. In the latter part of his life Hambro wrote monographs on the Norwegian authors Jens Bjørneboe and Arnulf Øverland; he also compiled a collection of the latter's poems. He was active in the Norwegian Authors' Union, becoming known as "a man of compromise" after having calmed a linguistic debate in the union. He also sought to relax the membership criteria, so that non-fiction authors also could become members, but to no avail. Yet, the Norwegian Non-fiction Writers Association was established in 1978. Hambro's good reputation dwindled with the years, especially following his vehement defence of the writers Agnar Mykle and Bjørneboe, who had been brought to court for their soft-core pornographic novels. Hambro also translated the works of others, mostly French and English authors, among them the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the French novelist Jacques de Lacretelle, the Canadian-American novelist Saul Bellow, the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, the Northern Irish novelist Brian Moore, the Hungarian-British author Arthur Koestler, and the British novelist William Golding. In 1963 he was rewarded the Bastian Prize for his translation of Claude Simon's The Flanders Road. He chaired the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators from 1961 to 1965. References 1914 births 1985 deaths Writers from Oslo University of Oslo alumni Norwegian philologists Romance philologists Norwegian expatriates in Sweden Norwegian radio journalists NRK people Norwegian newspaper reporters and correspondents Norwegian expatriates in France Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom Norwegian people of Danish-Jewish descent Norwegian schoolteachers Norwegian essayists Translators from French 20th-century Norwegian translators 20th-century Norwegian novelists 20th-century essayists 20th-century philologists