Ingebjørg Kasin Sandsdalen

Ingebjørg Kasin Sandsdalen (6 September 1915 – 4 September 2003) was a Norwegian poet and politician for the Christian Democratic Party.

She was born in Seljord, and in 1938 she married poet and farmer Halvor J. Sandsdalen (1911–1998). Her debut was Hjarta av jord in 1950, and her last work was Jord og tid in 2001. She wrote twenty poetry collections and eight books of poetic prose. In 1996 she was decorated with the King's Medal of Merit.^[1]

For the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1965 she was the fourth candidate on the ballot in Telemark, behind Johannes Østtveit, Olav Søyland and Morgan Kornmo.^[2] She was elected as a deputy representative for the term 1965–1969.^[3] She was later the ninth candidate at the 1973 election.^[4]

References

1. Aune, Olav Egil. "Ingebjørg Kasin Sandsdalen". In Helle, Knut. Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 29 December 2010.
2. "Norges Offisielle Statistikk. XII. 199. Stortingsvalget 1965. Hefte II. Oversikt." (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.
3. "Ingebjørg Kasin Sandsdalen" (in Norwegian). Stortinget.no. . Note that the bio gives her name wrongly, "Karin Sandsdalen".
4. "Norges Offisielle Statistikk. Stortingsvalget 1973. Hefte I." (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.