A pastor's paralyzed wife briefly walks before dying in her husband's embrace in his play about Klara and Adolf Sang.  
One character created by this man slaps her fiancÃ© when she discovers his affair with a servant girl, and another character created by this man is a politician who commits suicide when he is not given a promised diplomatic appointment based on Ole Richter.  This author who described Alf and Svava in A Gauntlet wrote such other plays as Geography and Love, Between the Battles, and the aforementioned Paul Lange and Tora Parsberg.  In one novel, the protagonist marries Eli, the daughter of his father's rival Baard Boen, and in another, Gunnar and Yngve Vold are among the suitors of Petra, the title character.  A pastor's paralyzed wife briefly walks before dying in her husband's embrace in his play about Klara and Adolf Sang.  FTP, name this author of Arne, The Fisher Maiden, and Beyond Our Power, a noted Norwegian.
One character created by this man slaps her fiancÃ© when she discovers his affair with a servant girl, and another character created by this man is a politician who commits suicide when he is not given a promised diplomatic appointment based on Ole Richter.  
Bjornstjerne Bjornson