High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg, known as Nordahl Grieg, (born 1. November 1902 in Bergen – shot down above Berlin 2. December 1943) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist and political activist. He was a popular poet and a controversial public figure in his lifetime. A convinced stalinist, he served as chairman of the political organization Friends of the Soviet Union (1935-40). He was the brother of publisher Harald Grieg.