Knut Eidem (24 December 1918 – 12 January 2009) was a Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer. He was a brother of

Odd Eidem Odd Eidem (23 October 1913 – 10 June 1988) was a Norwegian writer, journalist and literary critic. Biography He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the eldest of three sons born to Gunnar Kølbel (1890–1963) and Dorothea Se ...

. While a student at 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 ...

, Knut Eidem was among those rounded up following the 1943 University of Oslo fire, arrested and sent to

Sennheim concentration camp The following is a list of subcamps of the Natzweiler-Struthof complex of Nazi concentration camps, and work kommandos from the main camp. These subordinated camps were located on both sides of the German-French border. There were about 50 subc ...

. He remained incarcerated here until the camp was liberated. As a writer he published a book about the fire, ''Aulaen brenner'' (1980), and also the commercial success ''Rui-jentene som kom til Kongen'' (1974), then ''Se deg i speilet'' (1975), ''Før vi vandrer'' (1981) and ''Cato'' (1983, about

Cato Zahl Pedersen Cato Zahl Pedersen (born 12 January 1959) is a Norwegian skier and multiple Paralympic gold medal winner. He has won a total of fourteen medals (thirteen gold, one silver) at the Paralympic Games, in both Winter and Summer Paralympics. He has no ar ...

). His journalist career was spent in ''

Dagbladet ''Dagbladet'' (lit.: ''The Daily Magazine'') is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally ''Dagbladet'' is considered the main liberal newsp ...

'' from 1950 to 1990. He died in January 2009.

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1918 births 2009 deaths Sennheim concentration camp survivors University of Oslo alumni Dagbladet people Norwegian non-fiction writers 20th-century Norwegian journalists {{Norway-writer-stub