Ottar Grepstad

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Ottar Grepstad (born 1 October 1953) is a Norwegian Nynorsk writer.

He was born in Øyer. [1] In the 1970s he was the leader of the Young Liberals of Norway for a period. From 1984 to 1988 he edited the periodical Syn og Segn . [2] He worked in Det Norske Samlaget for many years, and has been manager for Noregs Mållag. In 1999 he became the leader of the Ivar Aasen Centre in Ørsta. [3] This centre is owned by Nynorsk kultursentrum; which is led by Grepstad as well. [4] From 1 January 2005 he has been a member of the Arts Council Norway, [5] and from 2006 to 2010 he has been a board member of the Norwegian Language Council.[ citation needed ] He left the Arts Council in late 2009. [6]

In 1997 he released the book Det litterære skattkammer. Sakprosaens teori og retorikk, which was claimed to be the "world's first theoretical book about prose". [7] In 1999 he was awarded the Norwegian Language Prize by the Norwegian Language Council. [8] In 2006 he released Viljen til språk. Ei nynorsk kulturhistorie and in 2010 Avisene som utvida Noreg. Nynorskpressa 1850-2010.

Grepstad resides in Volda.

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  2. "Ung tidsskriftredaktør" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 2 May 1988.
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  5. "Offisielt fra statsråd" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 17 December 2004.
  6. Sørheim, Sarah (19 December 2009). "Nilssen til Kulturrådet". Klassekampen (in Norwegian). pp. 34–35.
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