About Martha Ostenso
Martha Ostenso was a Norwegian American novelist and screenwriter who is also an important figure in Canadian literary history. Asked how to pronounce her name, she told The Literary Digest, "Of the three syllables in Ostenso, the first receives the major accent, the second is without accent, the third receives a minor accent. She produced fifteen more novels, the most successful of which was O River, Remember, a novel about a family in the Red River Valley of Minnesota which won a Literary Guild selection in 1943.
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