Sissel Benneche Osvold (born 4 April 1945) is a Norwegian journalist. She was assigned to the newspaper ''

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'' for nearly 35 years, and received the

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in 2007.

Personal life

Born in

Stavanger Stavanger, officially the Stavanger Municipality, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the ...

on 4 April 1945, Benneche Osvold is a daughter of Gerd Benneche, and was married to Totto Osvold. Their daughter Katja was a vocalist in the punk band Life... But How to Live It?

Career

She worked for the newspaper ''

'' from 1973 to 2007, where she had her own column, ''Sidesprang'', from 1990. She was awarded ''Den Store Journalistprisen'' by the

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in 1992. In 2007, she received the

. She retired in 2007, and a selection of her newspaper articles are contained in the collection (2007), edited by her daughter Katja.

References

1945 births Living people Writers from Stavanger Norwegian journalists Norwegian women journalists Dagbladet people Norwegian columnists Norwegian women columnists {{norway-writer-stub