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1958 In Norway
Events in the year 1958 in Norway. Incumbents * Monarch – Olav V * Prime Minister – Einar Gerhardsen ( Labour Party) Events * 8 January – Fire breaks out in the coastal steamer MS Erling Jarl while it is docked in Bodø. 14 people are killed. * 22 June – Olav V is crowned as ruler of Norway in the Nidaros Cathedral. Popular culture Sports Music Film Literature * Harald Sverdrup, poet and children's writer, is awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for his poetry, ''Sankt Elms ild''. *Astrid Tollefsen, poet, is awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment literature prize. Notable births *28 January – Lisbeth Bodd, performance artist and theatre leader (died 2014). *4 February – Kjell Ola Dahl, writer *25 February – Eugene Ejike Obiora, died during police arrest (died 2006) *19 May – Sjur Loen, curler. *9 June – Inghill Johansen, writer. *19 June – Siri Bjerke, politician *28 July – Peter M. Haugan, scientist and Director of the Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Norwegian Monarchs
The list of Norwegian monarchs ( no, kongerekken or ''kongerekka'') begins in 872: the traditional dating of the Battle of Hafrsfjord, after which victorious King Harald Fairhair merged several petty kingdoms into that of his father. Named after the homonymous geographical region, Harald's realm was later to be known as the Kingdom of Norway. Traditionally established in 872 and existing continuously for over 1,100 years, the Kingdom of Norway is one of the original states of Europe: King Harald V, who has reigned since 1991, is the 64th monarch according to the official list. During interregna, Norway has been ruled by variously titled regents. Several royal dynasties have possessed the Throne of the Kingdom of Norway: the more prominent include the Fairhair dynasty (872–970), the House of Sverre (1184–1319), and the House of Oldenburg (1450–1481, 1483–1533, 1537–1814, and from 1905) including branches Holstein-Gottorp (1814–1818) and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjell Ola Dahl
Kjell Ola Dahl (born 4 February 1958) is a Norwegian writer, who is sometimes known professionally as ''K. O. Dahl''. His writing career began with the publishing of ''Dødens Investeringer'' (''Lethal Investments'') in 1993 and he has subsequently authored more than a dozen novels, many short stories, several non-fiction books, and co-written two screenplays with the writer/director Hisham Zaman. He is best known for his eleven Nordic noir crime novels which feature his Oslo detectives Frølich and Gunnarstranda. Six of these have been published in English, translated by Don Bartlett. Speaking of his own work in Nordic Noir Dahl says ''‘I’m never entirely satisfied with my work – I’m pleased, of course, that readers find things to enjoy in them, but I can always see their weaknesses all too clearly. Bibliography In English Translated by Don Bartlett Donald Bartlett (born April 1, 1960) is a Canadian curler who lives in Edmonton, Alberta. Bartlett is best know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjerstin Andersen
Kjerstin Andersen (born 23 November 1958) is a former Norwegian team handball goalkeeper and Olympic medalist. She won a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ... with the Norwegian national team."1988 Summer Olympics – Seoul, South Korea – Handball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 12, 2008) Kjerstin Andersen played 104 games for the national team during her career. References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunn Marit Helgesen
Gunn Marit Helgesen (born 30 October 1958) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. Helgesen served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway during the terms 1993–1997, 1997–2001, 2001–2005, 2005–2009 and 2009–2013. In total she met during 68 days of parliamentary session. From 1995 to 2003 she was deputy county mayor of Telemark, and from 2003 she was county mayor. After the 2011 Norwegian local elections the local centre-right alliance was dissolved, and Terje Riis-Johansen became county mayor of a new centre-left coalition. She succeeded Halvdan Skard in December 2013 as chair of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities. She is also president of the North Sea Commission. and a board member of Kommunal Landspensjonskasse Kommunal Landspensjonskasse Gjensidig Forsikringsselskap or KLP is an Oslo-based mutual insurance company that manages the pensions of municipal employees in Norway. As of 31 March 2021, the fund had as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liv Signe Navarsete
Liv Signe Navarsete (born 23 October 1958 in Sogndal) is a Norwegian politician from the Centre Party. She has served as county governor of Vestland county since 2022. She previously served as Minister of Local Government and Modernisation (Norway), Minister of Local Government from 2009 to 2013, Minister of Transport from 2005 to 2009 and party leader from 2008 to 2014. On 11 February 2014, she announced that she would retire as the leader of the party in April. She was succeeded by Trygve Slagsvold Vedum. She was also political advisor to the Minister of Health and Social Affairs (social affairs) from 1999 to 2000. Navarsete was appointed as leader of the Centre Party (Norway), Centre Party in September 2008, having until then been the deputy leader. Career Parliament She was elected to the Storting in the 2005 Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005 election, and was re-elected three times since. She was among many notable politicians in the Storting to not seek re-election in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siv Nordrum
Siv Nordrum (7 October 1958 – 24 April 2021) was a Norwegian journalist, communication director and politician. Born in Drøbak, Nordrum worked as journalist from 1977, and was assigned with NRK in the 1980s and 1990s. At NRK she started working for the radio's main news programme ''Dagsnytt'' in 1984, and was a foreign correspondent for NRK in Asia from 1989. From 2001 to 2005 she served as State Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister, working with Kjell Magne Bondevik. From 2006 to 2012 she was appointed communication director at the University of Oslo, and from 2012 to 2015 she assumed a similar position for Statistics Norway, and from 2015 she was head of communications at the Storting. Nordrum was married to Christian Syse, Norwegian ambassador to Sweden and the couple resided in Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Haugen
Kim Haugen (born 24 September 1958) is a Norwegian actor. He is a son of actors Per Theodor Haugen and Sissel Sellæg and is married to Nadia Hasnaoui. He made his stage debut at Den Nationale Scene in 1982. From 1985 he worked as an actor at Nationaltheatret (The Norwegian National Theatre). In 1992 he played the title role in ''Hamlet'' at Oslo Nye Teater. He has also appeared for Fjernsynsteatret and participated in several television series, such as ''Vestavind'' from 1994 to 1995, ''Far og sønn'' from 2002 to 2004, and ''Ved kongens bord'' from 2005. In 2007, Haugen had a guest appearance in the successful Danish crime series '' The Killing''. He participated in the films ''Buddy Buddy may refer to: People *Buddy (nickname) *Buddy (rapper), real name Simmie Sims III (1993–Present) *Buddy Rogers (wrestler), ring name of American professional wrestler Herman Gustav Rohde, Jr. (1921–1992) *Buddy Boeheim (born 1999), Amer ...'' and '' Into the White''. References 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils Carl Aspenberg
Nils Carl Aspenberg (born 26 August 1958) is a Norwegian journalist, historian, author and businessperson. He has written numerous books on rail transport, and is chief executive officer of Baneforlaget. Aspenberg has a ''siviløkonom'' degree from BI Norwegian Business School. He worked as a conductor for Oslo Sporveier since 1980, and from 1981 tram and 1983-2003 subway engineer, as well as a bus driver since 1994. He has written more than thirty books on rail transport and local history and is owner of the publishing company Baneforlaget, which he founded in 1994. The company has published about 60 books. Aspenberg has been an active member of the Norwegian Railway Club, and was editor-in-chief of ''MJ-bladet'' from 1999 to 2003. He has also published the local history magazines ''Røakontakten'' from 1994 to 2008, and ''Langt Vest i Aker'' since 1997. He is also an editorial member of ''Lokaltrafikk'' and since 2013 also editor-in-chief. He is also an editorial member of '' Bli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Sem-Sandberg
Steve Sem-Sandberg (born 16 August 1958) is a Swedish journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer and translator. He made his literary debut in 1976 with the two science fiction novels ''Sländornas värld'' and ''Sökare i dödsskuggan''. He was awarded the Dobloug Prize for fiction in 2005. His 2009 novel, ''The Emperor of Lies'', was awarded the August Prize. It recounts the life of the Łódź ghetto and its leader Chaim Rumkowski in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Daphne Merkin in the ''New York Times'' said that he had succeeded in writing "a freshly felt, fully absorbing novel about the Holocaust," an even more difficult task as he was writing about a known historical figure in Rumkowski.Daphne Merkin, "The Man Who Ruled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophysical Institute, University Of Bergen
The Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen ( no, Geofysisk institutt) is a marine research facility located in Bergen, Norway. Founded in 1917 by Bjørn Helland-Hansen, the institute studies the field of oceanography dealing with the patterns of the weather in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Norway. Within recent years, focus has been increasingly on geophysics and environmental research. The research activities at the institute span from small scale measurement of turbulence up to studies of the large scale ocean currents, from local air and noise pollution up to studies of global scale climate change. Areas of research focus on the Norwegian Current, the West Spitsbergen Current and the Norwegian Sea. Shifts and fluctuations in these currents are monitored, as they are thought to be indicators for climate change. Research has included sequestration and related matters dealing with Carbon capture and storage. Since 2020 Tor Eldevik is the director of the instit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter M
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1947 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siri Bjerke
Siri Bjerke (19 June 1958 – 11 February 2012) was a Norwegian politician ( Labour Party). She was substitute member of the Norwegian legislature between 1997 and 2005, state secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1993 and 1997 and Minister of the Environment between 2000 and 2001 during Stoltenberg's first cabinet. After leaving politics she worked as a director for the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (2002–2005) and for Innovation Norway (2005–). She studied psychology at the University of Oslo. References *Obituaryin Dagbladet ''Dagbladet'' (lit.: ''The Daily Magazine'') is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally ''Dagbladet'' is considered the main liberal newsp ... 1958 births 2012 deaths Ministers of Climate and the Environment of Norway Deputy members of the Storting Labour Party (Norway) politicians Innovation Norway peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
