How to Pronounce Rikka Deinboll
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Mar 15, 1897 Hamar Municipality, Hedmark, Norway Died on 18 Feb 1973 (aged 75)
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About Rikka Deinboll
- Fredrikke Johanne "Rikka" Bjølgerud Deinboll (March 15, 1897 – February 18, 1973) was a Norwegian librarian and translator.
- She is known for her work in developing school libraries in Oslo, and for creating the Norwegian name Ole Brumm for the character Winnie-the-Pooh when she produced the first Norwegian translation of the book Winnie-the-Pooh in 1932, six years after it was published in English.Deinboll was born in Hamar.
- After obtaining her examen artium in 1916 and graduating from normal school in 1918 in Hamar, she worked at the children's and school department of the Oslo Public Library from 1918 to 1963, heading it from 1921 onward.
- She also worked at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City in 1921, and at the public library in Sarpsborg in 1947.
- In 1927 she married August Deinboll (1880–1975), who was the father of the Norwegian cartoonist Tore Deinboll (1910–1988).
- Deinboll received the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1963.
