Magnhild Folkvord (born 27 November 1945) is a

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and biographer.

Background

Folkvord is from

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and is an older sister of

Erling Folkvord Erling Folkvord (born 15 June 1949) is a Norwegian politician for the Red party, and a former member of the Parliament of Norway. A revolutionary socialist, he was one of the leading members of the Workers' Communist Party and the Red Electoral ...

. She moved to Oslo to take a

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degree at the

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, but as a member of the Workers' Communist Party she dropped out of the master's studies to self-proletarize.

Work

Folkvord was an ironworker at Jøtul for fourteen years. After resigning she eventually became a journalist in the former Workers' Communist Party newspaper ''

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'' in 1999. She worked there until 2015 and wrote political books. She also wrote a biography on

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in 2013, leading to her resigning from the newspaper and writing more biographies, on Betzy Kjelsberg in 2015 and

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in 2019.

References

1945 births Living people People from Levanger University of Oslo alumni Workers' Communist Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian feminists Norwegian journalists Norwegian biographers Nynorsk-language writers Norwegian socialist feminists Norwegian women biographers Norwegian women journalists 20th-century Norwegian women writers 21st-century Norwegian women writers {{Norway-writer-stub