Per Hansson (24 July 1922 – 12 June 1982) was a Norwegian journalist. He was born in

Kragerø Kragerø () is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional districts of Grenland and the smaller Vestmar. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kragerø. Villages in Kragerø include H ...

. He was the editor-in-chief of the newspapers ''

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'' from 1949 to 1954 and ''

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'' from 1954 to 1958. In 1958 he was hired as a journalist in ''

Dagbladet () is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally it was considered the main liberal newspaper of Norway, with a ...

'', where he stayed until 1970. He published several books on

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; 1965's ''Det største spillet'' was made into a film in 1967, with the English title '' The Greatest Gamble''. The same year he was awarded the

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1922 births 1982 deaths Norwegian newspaper editors Norwegian non-fiction writers People from Kragerø 20th-century Norwegian writers 20th-century Norwegian non-fiction writers {{Norway-writer-stub