![]() ![]() He attended the horticulture school ( Valle videregående skole) at Lena in Østre Toten from 1939-40. He remained bound by the needs of his mother and his sister, who had similar difficulties to his mother’s. Jonsson's poetry was strongly influenced by these younger years which conveys a sense of long shadows falling around the author. Of necessity, Jonsson had to work as a farm and garden laborer, and later as a printer. ![]() His father also had difficulties and died early. Jonsson lived in great poverty with a sick mother who was nearly helpless. His birthplace and childhood home was in the valley of Boverdal ( Bøverdalen) in Lom in Oppland, Norway.
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