Per Øyvind Heradstveit (26 May 1932 – 11 May 2004) was a Norwegian television journalist and non-fiction writer.

Personal life

Heradstveit was born on 26 May 1932 in Skjold in Ryfylke and grew up in Hardanger. He was a son of farmer Arne A. Heradstveit and Ingrid Nedrebø, and was a brother of Daniel Heradstveit. He married Regina Urszula Włodarek in 1956.

Career

Heradstveit worked for the

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

(NRK) from 1956, and for the television division from 1961. He was among the best known television personalities in Norway, hosting the daily news review '' Dagsrevyen'' and a number of television debates. Among his books were ''Hemmelige tjenester'' (1973), on intelligence and espionage, and ''Einar Gerhardsen og hans menn'' (1981), on power struggles within the

Norwegian Labour Party The Labour Party ( nb, Arbeiderpartiet; nn, Arbeidarpartiet; A/Ap; se, Bargiidbellodat), formerly The Norwegian Labour Party ( no, Det norske Arbeiderparti, DNA), is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is positioned on the centr ...

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