Aasmund Brynildsen was a Norwegian essayist, biographer, magazine editor and publishing house consultant.

He was born at Tjøme

Tjøme

Tjøme is a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tjøme. The parish of Tjømø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 .-Name:...

. He married writer Karin Bang

Karin Bang

Karin Bang is a Norwegian poet, novelist, children's writer and crime writer.-Early and personal life:Bang was born in Oslo as the daughter of industrial manager Alf Bang and Dagmar Kathinka Hansen...

 in 1952.

Brynildsen co-edited the anthroposophical magazine Spektrum from 1950 to 1954. He issued several essays collections, including Svermeren og hans demon (1972), a collection of four essays on the writer Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. He was praised by King Haakon VII of Norway as Norway's soul....

.

He was awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize

Riksmål Society Literature Prize

The Riksmål Society Literature Prize is awarded annually by the Riksmålsforbundet for the outstanding publication in riksmål...

in 1973.