Elin Ørjasæter (born 25 February 1962) is a Norwegian

children's writer Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's ...

, columnist, non-fiction writer and lecturer, and participant in contemporary debates in writing, speaking and television debates.

Biography

Ørjasæter was born in

Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...

, and graduated as cand.philol. in

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from the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

in 1989. From 2005 to 2007 she was a manager in the publishing house N. W. Damm & Søn. From 2007 to 2012 she was assigned as columnist for the online business newspaper '' E24 Næringsliv'', and since 2012 she has been appointed as lecturer for the institution

Campus Kristiania Kristiania University College is an educational institution in Norway organized through the Ernst G. Mortensen foundation. As of 2022, Kristiania has approximately 19 000 students and provides higher education in Oslo, Bergen and online. Krist ...

. She was a member of the Norwegian Broadcasting Council 2014–2017. In 2004 she was a board member of the

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. Her publications include the children's books ''Larry'' (1992) and ''Ikke ta Maika'' (1994), ''Lederboka'' from 2008, and ''Det glade vanvidd'' from 2011.

References

1962 births Living people Writers from Bærum Norwegian columnists Norwegian women columnists Norwegian journalists Norwegian women journalists Norwegian children's writers Norwegian women children's writers Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian women non-fiction writers University of Oslo alumni {{Norway-writer-stub