Reidar Øksnevad (13 May 1884 – 31 January 1958) was a Norwegian journalist, bibliographer and librarian. He was born in

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality is the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 116,000 as of January 2020, following th ...

to teacher Arnt Øksnevad and Kirsten Torine Folkvord, and was a brother of

Toralv Øksnevad Toralv Øksnevad (13 January 1891 – 31 July 1975) was a Norway, Norwegian politician, journalist, newspaper editor and radio personality. He was known as the "voice from London" during World War II, when listening to foreign radio in N ...

. Øksnevad lived in

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for 34 years. He lectured at Sorbonne from 1913 to 1919, and was a foreign correspondent for ''

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'' and other media, and was assigned as a librarian at the

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from 1924 to 1928 and from 1940 to 1945. He published around forty books, including several bibliographies. Among his works is the two-volume ''Norsk litteraturhistorisk bibliografi'', covering the periods 1900–1945 and 1946–1955. He was decorated as a Knight of the

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and Officier d'Académie.

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1884 births 1958 deaths People from Kristiansand Norwegian librarians Norwegian bibliographers Norwegian expatriates in France Knights of the Legion of Honour Officiers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques 20th-century Norwegian journalists {{Norway-journalist-stub