Bente Engesland (born 5 April 1962) is a Norwegian magazine editor.
She was the editor-in-chief of Kvinner og Klær from 2005 to 2008. She started her career working part-time in the Norwegian News Agency in 1983, and was a journalist in Aftenposten from 1985 to 1997. She graduated from the University of Oslo as cand.polit. in 1989. She worked in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1997 to 2004, and as a consultant at Burston-Marsteller from 2004 to 2005. [1]
Knut Nærum, is a Norwegian comedian, author, comics writer and TV-entertainer. He is best known for being one of the permanent panelists in the Norwegian show Nytt på nytt. On 23 April 2015, Nærum announced that he would step down from the show at the end of the season. Nærum was born in Arendal, but grew up in Halden, and attended high school in Grimstad. He later studied at the Agder Regional College and currently lives in Oslo with his wife and two children.
Kirsti Bergstø is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party.
Merete Agerbak-Jensen is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.
Bjørn Erik Simensen is a Norwegian culture administrator and former journalist. He is known as director of the Norwegian National Opera from 1984 to 1990 and 1997 to 2009.
Karin Maria Bruzelius is a Swedish-born Norwegian supreme court justice and former President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. In 1989, she became the first woman to be appointed Permanent Secretary of a government ministry, heading the Ministry of Transport and Communications until 1997. She was appointed supreme court justice on the Supreme Court of Norway in 1997, retiring in 2011. She has previously also been a Director-General in the Ministry of Justice and a corporate lawyer. She was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague from 2004 to 2010 and chaired the Petroleum Price Board from 1987 to 2004. She served as President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1978 to 1984 and from 2018 to 2020. She has been affiliated with the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law since 2011.
Liv Køltzow is a Norwegian novelist, playwright, biographer and essayist.
Carsten Bleness is a Norwegian newspaper editor.
Petter Eide is a Norwegian politician, member of Parliament, representing the Socialist Left Party since 2017.
Arne Strand is a Norwegian journalist and politician for the Labour Party. He is the current political editor in the newspaper Dagsavisen.
Signy Fardal is a Norwegian magazine editor.
Guri Hjeltnes is a Norwegian journalist and historian. Having mainly researched Norwegian World War II history during her career, she is a professor of journalism at the BI Norwegian Business School since 2004. She has also spent considerable time as a journalist and commentator, currently in Verdens Gang. She became director of the Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in 2012.
Kåre Johan Hansson Verpe is a Norwegian information worker and journalist.
Events in the year 1916 in Norway.
Ellen Arnstad is a Norwegian magazine editor.
Hilde Sandvik is a Norwegian journalist.
Marianne Borgen is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party, and the current Mayor of Oslo.
Hvem er hvem? was a Norwegian book series, presenting facts about notable persons from Norway. The first edition was issued in 1912, and the 14th edition came in 1994. In the 2008 edition, edited by Knut Olav Åmås, one thousand persons were selected for presentation. About one third of the articles are longer, signed biographies, while the rest have a shorter, more encyclopedic format.
Lilly Heber was a Norwegian literary critic and historian, novelist and magazine editor.
Unni Steinsmo is a Norwegian chemical engineer and researcher. She served as chief executive of SINTEF from 2004 to 2016.
Charlotte Haug is a Norwegian physician and editor, former editor of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association.