Carl Joachim Hambro was a Norwegian philologist, essayist, novelist and translator.

He was born in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 as a son of Carl Joachim Hambro. He took the cand.philol. degree in 1939, was a lecturer in Norwegian at Sorbonne

Sorbonne

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 from 1946 to 1949, and at the same time Paris

Paris

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 correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (1946–1951) and Arbeiderbladet (1949–1951). After being cultural counsellor at the Norwegian embassy in London from 1952 to 1959, he was hired as a lecturer at the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

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. He was an active essayist, novelist and translator, and was awarded the Bastian Prize

Bastian Prize

The Bastian Prize is a prize awarded annually by the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators.The prize, established in 1951, is given for translating a published work into Norwegian language...

for translation in 1963.