Elisabeth Eide (born 22 July 1950) is a Norwegian journalist, teacher, novelist and non-fiction writer. She was born in

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

. Eide made her novel debut in 1994 with ''Til Kabul faller ''. Further novels (crime fiction) are ''Utviklingens hjul'' from 1997, ''Der mørket leker med ilden'' from 1998, and '' Skyteskiver'' from 2000. She received the

Ossietzky Award The Ossietzky Award () is a prize awarded by the Norwegian chapter of P.E.N., for extraordinary contributions to freedom of speech. The prize is named after writer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Carl von Ossietzky. Recipients * Aziz Nesin (19 ...

in 2002. Eide was an active participant in the

Maoist Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic o ...

movement in Norway, and was part of a delegation with

AKP (m-l) The Workers' Communist Party (, AKP) was a Norwegian communist party (1973–2007). AKP was a Maoist party and one of two communist parties in Norway; the other was the older Communist Party of Norway which had remained pro-Soviet. The relationsh ...

that visited

Pol Pot Pol Pot (born Saloth Sâr; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian politician, revolutionary, and dictator who ruled the communist state of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 until Cambodian–Vietnamese War, his overthrow in 1979. During ...

in 1978. She later left the Maoist movement.

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