Else Michelet (16 February 1942 – 3 May 2021) was a Norwegian journalist, satirical writer and songwriter.

Early and personal life

Michelet was born in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

as a daughter of teacher Frans Oscar Michelet (1906–1984) and housewife Synnøve née Kulseng (1905–1981). The family moved to

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 ...

in 1947, and Michelet graduated 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 ...

with a

cand.mag. Candidatus magisterii (male), or candidata magisterii (female), abbreviated as cand.mag., is an academic degree currently awarded in Denmark. The degree is officially translated into English as Master of Arts and currently requires 5 years of studi ...

degree in English, French and literature. From 1977 to 1979 she was married to Ingjald Ørbeck Sørheim.

Career

Michelet worked for the

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest ...

from 1967; in the radio from 1973. She contributed to the entertainment programs '' Nitimen'' and '' Reiseradioen'', and worked with the weekly satirical radio show '' Hallo i uken'' from 1990. She was its producer from 1993 to 2009. She wrote several books: ''Sin egen herre: eventyr og annet ugress'' (1979), ''En annen historie'' (1981) and the novel ''Ariadnes tråd: et reiseliv'' (1988). Michelet was awarded the

Fritt Ord Honorary Award Fritt Ord Award consists of two prizes awarded by the Fritt Ord Foundation (''Stiftelsen Fritt Ord''). Two prizes are awarded in support of freedom of speech and freedom of expression; the Fritt Ord Award ( no, Fritt Ords pris) and the Fritt Or ...

in 2009, for her journalistic works in general, and particularly for developing the radio show ''Hallo i uken''.

References

1942 births 2021 deaths People from Trondheim Writers from Bærum University of Oslo alumni Norwegian radio personalities NRK people Norwegian songwriters Norwegian satirists Norwegian women writers Norwegian people of French descent Women satirists Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people {{Norway-writer-stub