Ole Sarvig

Ole Sarvig (Danish pronunciation:) (1921 in Copenhagen – 1981 in Copenhagen) was a Danish author and poet, known for his participation in the literary journal "heretica". In 1967 he received the grand prize of the Danish Academy. In 2004 his 1943 work "Regnmaaleren" was included in the Danish Culture Canon. He was a friend and mentor to the poet Michael Strunge, whose poem "December" remembers Sarvig's death by suicide in December 1981. Like Sarvig, Strunge took his life by jumping from a building.