Aage Storm Borchgrevink (born 1969) is a Norwegian human rights activist, writer and literary critic. He works at the

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, where he focuses on the human rights situation in

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and

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Career

He was born in

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, and graduated in

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at the

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. His fiction releases are the novel ''Arkivene'' from 2000 and the short story collection ''Folkevandringer'' from 2004. He has written two

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; ''Eurostories. Reiser i Øst-Europa'' (2003) and ''Den usynlige krigen. Reiser i Tsjetsjenia, Ingusjetia og Dagestan'' (2007). As a literary critic he publishes in ''

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'' and in newspapers. Borchgrevink has worked in the

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in Norway since 1993 as an adviser, mainly on human rights in

and other post-Soviet countries.

Awards

In 2004 he was awarded the Ossietzky Award by the

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for his "outstanding promotion of free speech". In 2012 he received the

Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (''Den norske Kritikerprisen for litteratur'' or ''Kritikerprisen'') is awarded by the Norwegian Literature Critics' Association (''Norsk Litteraturkritikerlag'') and has been awarded every year since 1950. ...

for his biography of terrorist

Anders Behring Breivik Fjotolf Hansen (born 13 February 1979), better known by his birth name Anders Behring Breivik () and by his pseudonym Andrew Berwick, is a Norwegian far-right domestic terrorist, known for committing the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July 2011. On ...

Bibliography

* 2000: ''Arkivene'' (novel) (ISBN 978-82-05-27571-3) * 2003: ''Eurostories: Reiser i Øst-Europa''. (short stories) (ISBN 978-82-05-31173-2) * 2004: ''Folkevandringer'' (novellas) (ISBN 978-82-05-33215-7) * 2007: ''Den usynlige krigen: Reiser i Tsjetsjenia, Ingusjetia og Dagestan'' (ISBN 978-82-02-24794-2) * 2012: ''En norsk tragedie: Anders Behring Breivik og veiene til Utøya'' ["A Norwegian tragedy.

and the roads to Utøya"] (2012)https://www.nrk.no/kultur/anbefaling_-gode-boker-om-22.-juli-1.15482583 [13 recommended books about (the attacks, or) 22 July] * 2014: ''Forvandlinger'' (novellas), Tiden * 2019: ''Giganten: fra Statoil til Equinor: historien om selskapet som forandret Norge'', Kagge forlag, ISBN 9788248924722 * 2022: ''Krigsherren i Kreml – Putin og hans tid'', Kagge forlag, ISBN 9788248930051

References

1969 births Living people Writers from Oslo University of Oslo alumni 21st-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian literary critics {{Norway-writer-stub