Anne Marit Godal (born 20 November 1972) is a

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. She studied political science at the

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and has had positions in the

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and No to the EU. From 2011 to 2016 she was

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of ''

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'' he Great Norwegian encyclopedia ''Store medisinske leksikon'' (an associated medical encyclopedia), and ''

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'' (a biographical encyclopedia). When she took over the editorship, these works were in danger of running out of funding, but in her term as editor-in-chief she secured university funding for their long-term survival. In 2018 Godal published an anthology of poems: "Things have to change, soon, it´s coming - 100 Norwegian poems of community and fight" (Alt skal bli forandra snart. 100 norske dikt om fellesskap og kamp), together with co editor Leif Høghaug.

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