Aslaug Låstad Lygre was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 poet.

She was born in Lindås

Lindås

Lindås is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway.-Background:The parish of Lindaas was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . Masfjorden was separated from Lindås on 1 March 1879. Austrheim was separated from Lindås on 1 January 1910...

. When she finished

Examen artium

Examen artium was the name of the academic certification conferred in Denmark and Norway, qualifying the student for admission to university studies. Examen artium was originally introduced as the entrance exam of the University of Copenhagen in 1630...

 her secondary education at Voss

Voss

is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Voss. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen....

 in 1932, she had already attended Fana Folk High School. In 1934 she finished commerce school in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

. She worked in the newspaper Gula Tidend

Gula Tidend

Gula Tidend is a former Norwegian newspaper. It was established in 1904 by Johannes Lavik, and disestablished in 1996. The newspaper was a proponent for the Nynorsk language in Western Norway, located in Bergen....

from 1934 to 1935, and was a member of Vestmannalaget. From 1935 she had an office job, but worked part-time because of sub-par health. However, she also wrote both poems and articles in publications such as Gula Tidend, Bergens Tidende

Bergens Tidende

Bergens Tidende is Norway's fourth largest newspaper and largest newspaper outside Oslo, with a circulation of about 87,000 copies . Founded in 1868, it is a Norwegian-language newspaper published daily in Bergen. It reaches approximately 260,000 readers every day , mainly in the counties of...

, Magne and Norsk barneblad.

Her first poetry collection was 1943's No blømer alle rosene ("Now All the Roses Bloom"). In her next collection, Eld av steinar ("Fire From Rocks", 1948) she coined the phrase Vi skal ikkje sova bort sumarnatta ("We shall not sleep away the summer night"), widely used today even out of its context. The poem was also given melody by Geirr Tveitt

Geirr Tveitt

Geirr Tveitt, born Nils Tveit was a Norwegian composer and pianist. Tveitt was a central figure of the national movement in Norwegian cultural life during the 1930s.-Early years:...

. Her next releases were Den einsame roaren (1952), Rit di rune (1957), Fest i september (1960) and Primulakveld (1964). In 1964 she won the Gyldendal's Endowment

Gyldendal's Endowment

Gyldendal's Endowment was a literature prize which was awarded in the period 1934–1995 by the Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. The prize was awarded to significant authors, regardless of which publisher the author was associated with...

. She died in 20 December 1966 in Bergen. A monument to her was erected in Lindås in 1982.