Haagen Ringnes (10 August 1928 – 23 April 2008) was a Norwegian television journalist and non-fiction writer.

Personal life

Ringnes was born in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

to pianist Inge Rolf Ringnes and Anne Johanne Prior Bergh. He was a grandson of brewer

Ellef Ringnes Ellef Ringnes (25 October 184215 March 1929) was a Norwegian brewer and patron. He was born at the Ringnes farm in Krødsherad, Buskerud to farmer Anders Knudsen Ringnes (1813–75) and his wife Maren Amundsdatter (1815–76). His father left the ...

. In 1960 he married social worker Betty Frisak.

Career

He worked for the news agency

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from 1956 to 1959, was a radio reporter for the

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from 1959, and worked with television from 1962. He received the award Humanistprisen in 1995. Among his books are ''Tanker om tvil og tro'' from 1969, ''I skyggen av solkorset'' from 1981, and ''Samtaler med dronningen'' from 1997.

References

1928 births 2008 deaths Writers from Oslo Norwegian writers NRK people 20th-century Norwegian journalists {{Norway-writer-stub