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Gunnar Bull Gundersen was a Norwegian sailor, novelist, playwright and lyricist.
Gunnar Bull Gundersen was born in Stavanger, in Rogaland, Norway. Gundersen grew up with changing foster parents and at different boarding schools. He referred to his young years as a very itinerant childhood and said he had visited 10 schools and been expelled from three of them. Shortly after World War II, he went to sea. He was welfare secretary in the State Welfare Office for the merchant navy, where he was stationed in Antwerp, Rotterdam and Liverpool. He took the exam officer and later captain examinations at Oslo Public Seamen's School in 1953 and sailed for some years as an officer in foreign trade. At one time he was also captain of the ferry between Nesodden and Oslo. As a newly qualified officer was hired as stage manager at the Radio Theatre for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
Gundersen was active in many fields. He was a theater director, novelist, playwright, emcee of radio and television, and wrote lyrics with jazz musicians or in concert with his friend and colleague, lyricist Harald Sverdrup. He also made an important contribution as an enthusiastic jazz communicates through a long series of radio programs in 1960 - 1970. In addition, he was a frequent contributor to the press.
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