Marie Wexelsen

Marie Wexelsen (29 September 1832 – 7 December 1911) was a Norwegian poet, children's writer and novelist.

Inger Marie Lyche Wexelsen was born at Østre Toten parish in Oppland, Norway. She was the youngest of nine children born into a farming family. Later she was a school teacher at Hamar and in Trondheim.

She published her first novel, Vesle-Kari, eller de Forældreløse, in 1858 under the signature "I. L.". She is particularly remembered for the Christmas carol "Jeg er saa glad hver Julekveld", first published in the collection Ketil, en Julegave for Smaa from 1860.

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