Marte Brekke Michelet (born 26 May 1975) is a Norwegian journalist, critic and non-fiction writer. She is the daughter of novelist and politician

Jon Michelet Jon Michelet (14 July 1944, Moss – 14 April 2018, Oslo) was a Norwegian novelist. He had experience in various lines of work, including sailor and dock worker and references to these experiences can be found in his writing. His writing spans sev ...

and Toril Brekke. They resided in

Lindeberg, Oslo Lindeberg is an area in Oslo, located in Groruddalen southwest of Furuset. The habitation in the area is a mixture of apartment buildings and townhouses. Lindeberg is divided into several housing cooperatives, including Ospa, Furua, Bjørka, Asken ...

before her parents split up. Marte Michelet moved into an apartment in Oslo, that once had housed a young Jewish girl who was deported to Auschwitz. She started her career in RadiOrakel and as a journalist in

NRK NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting Aksjeselskap, AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and ...

. In 2006 she was hired 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 ...

'', where she rose to political commentator. She was also at one point the

restaurant critic The terms food critic, food writer, and restaurant critic can all be used to describe a writer who analyzes food or restaurants and then publishes the results of their findings. While these terms are not strictly synonymous they are often used int ...

''Robinson & Fredag''. She resigned in 2014 when moving with her former husband

Ali Esbati Ali Esbati ( fa, علی اثباتی; born 12 September 1976) is an Iranian-Swedish politician of the Left Party and economist, and was the chairman of Young Left from 2001 to 2004. As of today, he is a handling officer of labour market polici ...

to Sweden; he was elected as a member of Parliament there. In 2014 she released the book ''Den største forbrytelsen'' about the

Holocaust in Norway The German occupation of Norway began on 9 April 1940. In 1942, there were at least 2,173 Jews in Norway. At least 775 of them were arrested, detained and/or deported. More than half of the Norwegians who died in camps in Germany were Jews. 742 ...

, receiving rave reviews and promptly winning the

Brage Prize The Brage Prize (Norwegian: ''Brageprisen'') is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation (''Den norske bokprisen''). The prize recognizes recently published Norwegian literature. The Brage Priz ...

Bibliography

* ''Kvinnekamp i sari : Møte med kvinner i India og Nepal'' (1997) (co-authored with

Kjersti Ericsson Kjersti Ericsson (born 18 January 1944 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian psychologist, criminologist, writer, poet and former politician. She is Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo. Ericsson obtained her cand.ps ...

og Sissel Henriksen). Arbeidernes kommunistparti * ''Den største forbrytelsen'' (2014) * ''Hva visste hjemmefronten?'' (2018),Var krigshelten Gunnar Sønsteby virkelig jødehater?
9 November 2020.

Nettavisen ''Nettavisen'' is a Norwegian online newspaper, launched in 1996 as the first online-only newspaper in Norway. The current editor is Gunnar Stavrum. As of 2015 it was one of Norway's most popular news websites. History The online newspaper (its l ...

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