Bengt Calmeyer (born 3 October 1932) is a Norwegian journalist and novelist. He was born in

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, and is a brother of actor Joachim Calmeyer. He was assigned with the newspaper ''

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'' from 1959, where he was a foreign correspondent in

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from 1965, and later cultural editor. His books include ''NRK – myter og virkelighet'' from 1977 and ''Forsinket oppgjør: arbeiderbevegelsen og den politiske overvåking'' from 1993. He has written the crime novels ''Åpen grav'' (1967) and ''De hemmelige døde'' (1968), where the detective is a freelance journalist. Later fictional works include the trilogy ''Mennesker'' from 1997, ''Vitner'' from 1999 and ''Spor'' from 2000.

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