Kåre Kleivan (13 June 1917 – 10 February 1998) was a Norwegian journalist. He was from

Tromsø Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Tromsø (city), city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies ...

, and started his journalistic career in '' Nordlys'' in 1937. During the

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he studied law at the

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and contributed to the illegal press before escaping to

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, where he worked in the

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. He is also known for escorting the Jewish family Smith from Northern Norway to

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, away from German forces, in 1940. For this he was declared as a Righteous among the Nations in 2006. He worked in

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from 1945 to 1948, then in the newspaper ''

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''. From 1970 to 1984 he was a subeditor and leader of the political department in the newspaper. He chaired the local union ''Oslo Journalistklubb'' from 1972 to 1975 and was a national board member of the Norwegian Union of Journalists from 1962 to 1968. He was a member of the Workers' Youth League and the

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, and was also a member of the

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and chaired the Norway–Israel Association. He settled in Kolbotn, was married to a Danish woman and had three children. He died in February 1998.

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1917 births 1998 deaths People from Tromsø Norwegian resistance members Norwegian expatriates in Sweden Norwegian trade unionists Norwegian social democrats Norwegian Righteous Among the Nations 20th-century Norwegian writers 20th-century Norwegian journalists People from Kolbotn {{Norway-journalist-stub