Magnhild Folkvord
Magnhild Folkvord (born 27 November 1945) is a Norwegian journalist and biographer.
She hails from Frol and is an older sister of Erling Folkvord. She moved to Oslo to take a cand.mag. degree at the University of Oslo, but as a member of the Workers' Communist Party she dropped out of the master's studies to . She was an ironworker at Jøtul for fourteen years.[1]
After resigning she eventually became a journalist in the former Workers' Communist Party newspaper Klassekampen in 1999. She worked there until 2015 and wrote political books. She also wrote a biography on Fredrikke Marie Qvam in 2013, leading to her resigning from the newspaper and writing more biographies, on Betzy Kjelsberg in 2015 and Magnhild Haalke in 2019.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hjulstad, Guri (9 March 2019). "Fronter kvinner". Trønder-Avisa (in Norwegian). pp. 18–20.
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