Knut Olav Åmås (born 19 January 1968) is a Norwegian

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, editor and

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for the Conservative Party. He hails from Odda. He holds a cand.philol. degree in philosophy, having taken his master's thesis on

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at the

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. He later took a dr.philos. degree on a biographical thesis about

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. He has worked as a journalist in ''

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'', and is from 2006 debate editor (from 2008: editor of culture and debate) in ''

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''. He was an editor in the publishing house Universitetsforlaget from 1996 to 2001, and edited the periodical '' Samtiden'' from 2001 to 2006. In 2013 he was named in

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as State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs. He is currently the Director of '' Fritt Ord''. Åmås is openly gay.

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