Alf Harbitz was a Norwegian journalist, writer, critic and translator.

He was born in Flekkefjord

Flekkefjord

is a town and municipality in the county of Vest-Agder, Norway.The town of Flekkefjord was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . The rural municipalities of Bakke, Gyland, Hidra, and Nes were merged with Flekkefjord on 1 January 1965.Flekkefjord is the westernmost town of the...

. During his career he worked in newspapers such as Verdens Gang

Verdens Gang

Verdens Gang , generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper...

, Aftenposten

Aftenposten

Aftenposten is Norway's largest newspaper. It retook this position in 2010, taking it from the tabloid Verdens Gang which had been the largest newspaper for several decades. It is based in Oslo. The morning edition, which is distributed across all of Norway, had a circulation of 250,179 in 2007...

, Morgenbladet

Morgenbladet

Morgenbladet is a Norwegian weekly newspaper. It was founded in 1819 by the book printer Niels Wulfsberg, and was the country's first daily newspaper. For a long time, it was also the country's biggest newspaper. It was closed down by the German Wehrmacht during World War II...

and Drammens Tidende

Drammens Tidende

Drammens Tidende is Norway's tenth largest newspaper, with a circulation of 40,954. Owned by Edda Media, the newspaper convers central parts of Buskerud as well as Drammen with seven weekly issues...

. He also published several novels, plays and works of prose. He was a member of the board of the Riksmål Society

Riksmålsforbundet

Riksmålsforbundet is the main organisation for Riksmål, one of the written standard of the Norwegian language ....

from 1929 to 1938, and chaired the organization from 1936 to 1937.