Hans Petter Sjøli (born 16 January 1974 in

Steinkjer Steinkjer is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Steinkjer which is located on the inner part of the Trondheimsfjord. The town is also th ...

) is a Norwegian journalist for ''

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'' and ''

Klassekampen ''Klassekampen'' ( en, The Class Struggle) is a Norwegian daily newspaper. It describes itself as "the newspaper of the Left." The paper's net circulation is 34,000 (2021), and it has around 111,000 daily readers on paper (160,000 on Saturdays). ...

'' and author of the book ''Mao, min mao. Historien om AKPs vekst og fall'', published by Cappelen forlag in 2005. Sjøli studied history at Universitetet i Oslo, he also studied in

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and

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

. The Norwegian journalist formerly worked in

and Dagens Næringsliv. Currently, he lives in Rodeløkka,

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with his family.

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