Olav Gullvåg was a Norwegian playwright, novelist, poet and editor.

He was born in Trondheim

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

. He worked as editor-in-chief of Søndmøre Folkeblad from 1911 to 1912, Norig from 1912 to 1921 and 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 1921 to 1929. From 1920 to 1926 he was the chairman of the Young Liberals of Norway, the youth wing of the Liberal Party

He published several novels, plays and poems, including the Saint Olav Drama

The Saint Olav Drama

The Saint Olav Drama is an outdoor theatre performance played every end of July in Stiklestad in Verdal, Norway, to commemorate the Battle of Stiklestad. The play was written by Olav Gullvåg, and has been staged every year since 1954....

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His son was philosopher Ingemund Gullvåg.