Ragnar Kvam Jr. (born 23 September 1942) is a Norwegian journalist, globetrotter, biographer and non-fiction writer.

Biography

Kvam was born in

Kvinesdal Kvinesdal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Lister Region, Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the villa ...

and is a son of

Ragnar Kvam Ragnar Kvam (18 November 1917 – 15 February 2006) was a Norwegian journalist, novelist, translator and literary critic. He was born in Tønsberg and grew up in Drammen. After the Second World War he was journalist in the newspaper ''Fremtide ...

. He is married to

Sidsel Wold Sidsel Wold (born 23 February 1959) is a Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer. She is known as Middle East correspondent for NRK, and is a recipient of the Ossietzky Award and the Gullruten honorary award. Personal life and education ...

. From 1974 to 1987 he was a journalist for the newspaper ''

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''. He then initiated a period of sailing around the world, which eventually resulted in three books, ''Oppbrudd'' from 1990, ''Havet har meg nå'' from 1992, and ''En sjøreise til Sibir'' from 1996. He has written biographies of

Hjalmar Johansen Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen (15 May 1867 – 3 January 1913) was a Norwegian polar explorer. He participated on the first and third '' Fram'' expeditions. He shipped out with the Fridtjof Nansen expedition in 1893–1896, and accompanied Nansen to ...

and other polar explorers, and his three-volume biography of

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earned him the Riksmålsforbundet's literary prize. He has also written a biography on painter and

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Knud Bull Knud Geelmuyden Bull (10 September 1811 – 23 December 1889) was a Norwegian painter and counterfeiter. He studied as a painter, was convicted for printing false bank notes, and was deported from the United Kingdom to Australia during 184 ...

, who was deported from

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to Australia in 1846.

References

1942 births Living people People from Kvinesdal Norwegian journalists Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian biographers Norwegian travel writers Norwegian male biographers {{norway-writer-stub