Jon Ottar Hustad (25 March 1968 – 12 October 2023) was a Norwegian journalist, writer and
lector
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Academic
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in history.
Hustad was born in
Bondalen
Bondalen is a valley in Ørsta Municipality in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. The long, sparsely populated valley runs west from the village of Sæbø, on the shore of the Hjørundfjorden.
A section of Norwegian County Road 655 (Fv655) runs through ...
in
Ørsta Municipality
is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre Districts of Norway, region of Western Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Ørsta (v ...
. He worked in ''
Dag og Tid
''Dag og Tid'' () is a national weekly newspaper in Norway that uses the Nynorsk standard of the Norwegian language.
''Dag og Tid'' was founded in 1962. Contrary to most other Norwegian newspapers, its circulation has recently increased signific ...
'' until his time of death.
He worked for ''
Klassekampen
(Lit. translation: ''"The Class Struggle"'') is a Norwegian daily newspaper in print and online. Its tagline is "The daily newspaper of the Left". The paper's net circulation was 33,265 in 2022, and it has around 111,000 daily readers on paper ...
'' from 2002 to 2003 and 2004 to 2007, and ''
Morgenbladet
is Norway's oldest daily newspaper, covering politics, culture and science, now a weekly news magazine primarily directed at well-educated readers. The magazine is notable for its opinion section featuring contributions exclusively from Norweg ...
'' from 2003 to 2004. His non-fiction books include ''Skolen som forsvann'' (2002), ''Hjørundfjorden'' (2005) and ''Varsleren'' (2006). He had a
cand.philol. degree from 1997.
Hustad died on 12 October 2023, at the age of 55.
Bibliography
Hustad wrote several non-fiction books:
[
* ''Skolen som forsvann'' (2002)
* ''14 menn og ei kvinne'' (2004)
* ''Hjørundfjorden'' (2005)
* ''Varsleren'' (2006)
* ''Gjeldsslaven Europa'' (2012)
]
References
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1968 births
2023 deaths
Norwegian journalists
Norwegian non-fiction writers
People from Ørsta