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

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

. 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 ( no, Ossietzkyprisen ) 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. Recipie ...

in 2002. Eide was an active participant in the

Maoist Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

movement in Norway, and was part of a delegation with

AKP (m-l) The Workers' Communist Party ( no, Arbeidernes Kommunistparti, 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 remai ...

that visited

Pol Pot Pol Pot; (born Saloth Sâr;; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a Marxist–Lenini ...

in 1978. She later left the Maoist movement.

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