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as a younger brother of Hans Geelmuyden. They were nephews of the writer Hans Geelmuyden. The Geelmuyden name is traced back to Dutch immigrants in the 1600s. Niels Christian Geelmuyden attended local schools before getting the cand.polit. degree in

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at the

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. Geelmuyden was a columnist in the conservative newspapers and periodicals ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''Tidens Tegn''. He mostly became known for his biographical portraits in interview form, which were mostly printed in '' Kapital'' and collected in several books. By 2016, the number of interviews had approached 600. Geelmuyden also wrote for other outlets, notably a 1993 portrait of Prime Minister

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for ''

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''. Growing frustrated with Brundtland's way of handling the media and her elusive verbal style, Geelmuyden decided to quote her exactly as she replied, which appeared wholly incoherent in print. The Office of the Prime Minister refused and ''Det Nye'' printed a "sanitized" version, prompting ''Kapital'' to print the "real" version. In 2007, he received the

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. Geelmuyden proceeded to write several critical books about the food industry. The first two were ''Sannheten på bordet'' (2013) and ''Sannheten i glasset'' (2015), regarding

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and

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in food and drink respectively. ''Pillebefinnende'' (2017) regarded the increased consumption of nutritional and medicinal pills. Geelmuyden resides in

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1960 births Living people Writers from Bærum University of Oslo alumni Norwegian male writers Norwegian columnists Norwegian food writers Riksmål-language writers {{Norway-writer-stub