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Sissel Benneche Osvold (born 4 April 1945) is a Norwegian journalist. She was born in
Stavanger Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...
, a daughter of
Gerd Benneche Gerd Benneche (1 December 1913 – 26 March 2003) was a Norwegian jurist, journalist, non-fiction writer and politician for the Liberal Party. Biography She was born Bergen, and is the mother of Sissel Benneche Osvold. She worked for the news ...
, and was married to
Totto Osvold Werner “Totto” Osvold (21 June 1941 – 3 June 2023) was a Norwegian radio entertainer. Personal life Born in Ålesund on 21 June 1941, Osvold was married to journalist Sissel Benneche Osvold. Their daughter Katja was a vocalist in Life.. ...
. She worked for the newspaper ''
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 ...
'' from 1973 to 2007, where she had her own column, ''Sidesprang'', from 1990. She was awarded ''Den Store Journalistprisen'' by the
Norwegian Press Association The Norwegian Press Association ( no, Norsk Presseforbund, NP) is Norwegian association established in 1910, for press people with journalism as their main profession. Among its members are the Norwegian Union of Journalists, the Association of Nor ...
in 1992. In 2007, she received the
Fritt Ord Honorary Award Fritt Ord Award consists of two prizes awarded by the Fritt Ord Foundation (''Stiftelsen Fritt Ord''). Two prizes are awarded in support of freedom of speech and freedom of expression; the Fritt Ord Award ( no, Fritt Ords pris) and the Fritt Or ...
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1945 births Living people Writers from Stavanger Norwegian journalists Norwegian women journalists Dagbladet people Norwegian columnists Norwegian women columnists {{norway-writer-stub