Lars Sigurd Sunnanå (born 28 May 1946) is a Norwegian journalist.

Personal life

Sunnanå was born in

Karmøy Karmøy is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is southwest of the town of Haugesund in the traditional district of Haugaland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kopervik. Most of the municipality lies on ...

and grew up in

Porsgrunn is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Porsgrunn (town), city ...

. He is a nephew of Klaus Sunnanå. He is married and his son Lars Magne Sunnanå is a former local politician (

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) in

Bærum Bærum () is a list of municipalities of Norway, municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Akershus County, Norway. It forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a populatio ...

, where the family lives. Lars Sigurd Sunnanå was himself a member of the

Norwegian Young Conservatives Norwegian Young Conservatives (Norwegian: Unge Høyres Landsforbund, UHL, normally referred to as Unge Høyre) is the Norwegian youth party of the Conservative Party. Its ideology is liberal conservatism. The party has 3,078 members as of 2 ...

in his youth. He is also a

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Career

He worked in '' Varden'' and ''

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'' in his early career. He was awarded the

Narvesen Prize The Narvesen Prize was a Norwegian prize for those who excelled in journalism. It was established in 1954 by the company Narvesen, but the Norwegian Press Association was behind the selection of winners. It was discontinued in 1990. List of winne ...

in 1971. In 1972 he was hired by

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (), commonly known by its initialism NRK, is a Norwegian state-run, government-influenced radio and television public broadcasting company. The NRK broadcasts three national TV channels and thirteen nat ...

. He was their Middle East correspondent from 1999 to 2003, and in 2010, he began as NRK's Africa correspondent based in Nairobi. His tenure ended in 2013. In 2004 he wrote the book ''Saddams fortrolige'' together with

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's physician

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. The book was translated to English, French, Arabic, Danish, Finnish, German, Swedish, Dutch, Estonian, Spanish, Japanese and Russian. In 2005 came ''Oppdraget. Innsidehistorien om Saddams atomvåpen'', about nuclear weapons in

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, together with Jafar D. Jafar and Numan Saadaldin al-Niaimi. In 2008 came ''Skibbrudd. En dokumentar om Redningsselskapets skjulte liv'', a critical book about the

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.List of publications
in

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References

1946 births Living people People from Karmøy People from Porsgrunn People from Bærum Norwegian journalists NRK people Norwegian television reporters and correspondents Norwegian expatriates in Kenya Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian Freemasons {{Norway-journalist-stub