Geir Berdahl (born 19 June 1945) is a Norwegian publisher, the leader of

Forlaget Oktober Forlaget Oktober is a Norwegian publishing house. Oktober focuses on Norwegian contemporary fiction. In addition, they publish a small selection of non-fiction, poetry, and translated fiction. Annually they release around 50 new titles, and around ...

for 35 years.

Career

In the 1970s Berdahl was associated with SUF (m-l) and the Workers' Communist Party AKP (m-l). He graduated as mag.art in literature 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 1974. From 1974 to 1979 he was running the bookshop Tronsmo. He was chief executive officer of the publishing house

from 1979 to 2015. From 2003 to 2006 he was chairman of the board of the newspaper ''

Klassekampen ''Klassekampen'' ( en, The Class Struggle) is a Norwegian daily newspaper. It describes itself as "the newspaper of the Left." The paper's net circulation is 34,000 (2021), and it has around 111,000 daily readers on paper (160,000 on Saturdays). ...

'', and he chaired the

Norwegian Publishers' Association The Norwegian Publishers' Association ( no, Den norske Forleggerforening) is a publishing house association in Norway. It was established in 1895 by William Martin Nygaard as a sub-group of the Norwegian Booksellers Association. The two separated i ...

a period from 2005.

References

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