Aage Storm Borchgrevink is a Norwegian writer and literary critic.

He was born in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, and took his education in literary history at the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

. His fiction releases are the novel Arkivene from 2000 and the short story collection Folkevandringer from 2004. He has written two travelogues

Travel journal

A travel journal, also called road journal or travelogue, is a record made by a voyager. Generally in diary form, a travel journal contains descriptions of the traveler's experiences, is normally written during the course of the journey, intended on updating friends or family on the journey...

; Eurostories. Reiser i Øst-Europa (2003) and Den usynlige krigen. Reiser i Tsjetsjenia, Ingusjetia og Dagestan (2007). As a literary critic he publishes in Vinduet and in newspapers.

Borchgrevink has worked in the Helsinki Committee in Norway since 1993 as an adviser. In 2004 he was awarded the Ossietzky Award by the Norwegian PEN

International PEN

PEN International , the worldwide association of writers, was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere....

for his "outstanding promotion of free speech".