Anderson, Gidske
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born on | 4 November 1921 at 09:40 (= 09:40 AM ) | ||||
Place | Oslo, Norway, 59n55, 10e45 | ||||
Timezone | MET h1e (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
Norwegian journalist, writer, and politician of the Labour Party. During World War II she was part of the communist resistance movement. After the war she worked as a journalist at Friheten ('The Freedom'), the Norwegian Communist Party's own newspaper. In 1948 she travelled to Paris where she worked as a freelance journalist and later freelance correspondent for Arbeiderbladet, the party organ of the Norwegian Labour Party, and the daily radio news for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
1981-1993 she was a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Nobel Peace Prize. She eventually became its leader and held this position when the award was given to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990.
She published three poetry collections and several books on social conditions, politics, and literature, as well as biographies of Sigrid Undset and Trygve Bratteli.
Anderson died on 19 October 1993 in Oslo, Norway, aged 71.
Events
Source Notes
Viktor E. quotes certificate of live birth in hand.
Categories
- Family : Relationship : Married late/never (Never)
- Vocation : Politics : Party Affiliation
- Vocation : Writers : Biographer
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Poet
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- 1921 births
- Birthday 4 November
- Birthplace Oslo, NOR
- Sun 11 Scorpio
- Moon 4 Capricorn
- Asc 27 Scorpio
- 1993 deaths
- Family : Relationship : Married late/never
- Vocation : Politics : Party Affiliation
- Vocation : Writers : Biographer
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Poet
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction