Einar Diesen (4 October 1897 – 8 May 1994) was a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor. Søren Einar Gjerding Diesen was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the son of Thorstein Diesen, who was editor of the newspaper ''

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'' from 1908 to his death in 1925. He attended a boarding school in the United Kingdom before graduating in 1916. He next held an apprenticeship as a journalist at ''

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''. Diesen was a journalist for ''Aftenposten'' from 1921. In 1924 he became the foreign correspondent of ''Aftenposten'' in Paris and covered the

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. Following the

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, Diesen came to Great Britain in the spring of 1942 and was attached to the Government Information Office. From November 1942 to 1945 he worked for the Norwegian government-in-exile in London. He served as editor-in-chief for ''Aftenposten'' from 1948 to 1968. He was chairman of the Norwegian Editorial Society 1956–66, and chairman of the

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's professional committee 1957–72. Diesen was also an avid tennis player and served as president of the Norwegian Tennis Federation from 1933 to 1948.

Selected works

*''Kabalboken'' (1941) *''Fra petit til leder'' (1968) *''Heksenes hus'' (1979)

References

1897 births 1994 deaths Journalists from Bergen Norwegian expatriates in England Norwegian newspaper editors 20th-century Norwegian writers Norwegian sports executives and administrators Norwegian people of World War II Aftenposten editors Chairs of the Association of Norwegian Editors {{Norway-journalist-stub