Kristin Solberg (born 1982) is a Norwegian journalist and author. She is the Middle East correspondent for

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and presently based in Beirut. Previously she covered the

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and

South Asia South Asia is the southern Subregion#Asia, subregion of Asia that is defined in both geographical and Ethnicity, ethnic-Culture, cultural terms. South Asia, with a population of 2.04 billion, contains a quarter (25%) of the world's populatio ...

for''

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''. Solberg has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Sheffield University and a

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from

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. She has also studied Arabic in Lebanon and worked for a newspaper there. After working temporarily for ''Aftenposten'' in Norway in 2007, she started as a freelance correspondent in

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and became the South Asia correspondent for ''Aftenposten''. She was based in

Kabul Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province. The city is divided for administration into #Districts, 22 municipal districts. A ...

from 2011 and 2013. In 2013 she became based in

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as a Middle East correspondent.Stine Okkelmo (2 January 2014
- Jeg kunne ikke gå ut alene
KK. In December 2014 she got the position of correspondent in Istanbul where she will cover West-Asia and part of the Middle East.Daniel Eriksen (3 December 2014
Slik er NRKs nye korrespondenter
NRK. She has written one book about Pakistan and one about a

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school in Afghanistan.

Awards

* International Reporter Journalist Prize for ''Gjennom de renes land - Rapport fra Pakistan'' (2011) * Den store journalistprisen, with

Anders Sømme Hammer Anders Sømme Hammer (born 20 August 1977) is a Norwegian documentarian and journalist. Career He moved to Kabul, Afghanistan in June 2007 to cover the ongoing war. He was a freelancer, but produced for several media outlets. He delivered ne ...

(2014) *The

Bjørnson Prize The Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression (''Det Norske Akademi for Litteratur og Ytringsfrihet'') is a Norwegian institution founded by the poet Knut Ødegård in 2003 and also called ''Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson-Akademiet''. It ...

(2014)

Bibliography

*''Gjennom de renes land - Rapport fra Pakistan'' 2011 *''Livets skole'' 2013

References

1982 births Living people Alumni of the London School of Economics Norwegian newspaper journalists Norwegian newspaper reporters and correspondents Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian women non-fiction writers 21st-century Norwegian women writers Norwegian expatriates in India Norwegian expatriates in Egypt Aftenposten people NRK people {{Norway-writer-stub