Magnhild Folkvord | |
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Born | 27 November 1945 |
Nationality | Norwegian |
Occupation(s) | Journalist and biographer |
Known for | Biographies on Fredrikke Marie Qvam, Betzy Kjelsberg and Magnhild Haalke |
Magnhild Folkvord (born 27 November 1945) is a Norwegian journalist and biographer. [1]
Folkvord is from Frol and is an older sister of Erling Folkvord. She moved to Oslo to take a cand.mag. degree at the University of Oslo, but as a member of the Workers' Communist Party she dropped out of the master's studies to self-proletarize.
Folkvord was an ironworker at Jøtul for fourteen years. [2]
After resigning she eventually became a journalist in the former Workers' Communist Party newspaper Klassekampen in 1999. She worked there until 2015 and wrote political books. She also wrote a biography on Fredrikke Marie Qvam in 2013, leading to her resigning from the newspaper and writing more biographies, on Betzy Kjelsberg in 2015 and Magnhild Haalke in 2019. [2]
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