Frank Rossavik is a Norwegian journalist.

Rossavik graduated from the University of Bergen

University of Bergen

The University of Bergen is located in Bergen, Norway. Although founded as late as 1946, academic activity had taken place at Bergen Museum as far back as 1825. The university today serves more than 14,500 students...

 in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in comparative politics

Comparative politics

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. In 2004 he took the master's degree

Master's degree

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 in international politics from the Centre Européen de Recherches Internationales et Stratégiques

Centre Européen de Recherches Internationales et Stratégiques

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. He worked as a journalist in Rogalands Avis

Rogalands Avis

Rogalands Avis is a local newspaper published in Stavanger, Norway. It covers Stavanger and the rest of southern Rogaland. It was established in 1899....

from 1987 to 1988, before being hired as press secretary for the Socialist Left Party

Socialist Left Party (Norway)

The Socialist Left Party or SV, is a Norwegian left-wing political party. At one point one of the smallest parties in Parliament, it became the fourth-largest political party in Norway for the first time in the 2001 parliamentary election, and has been so ever since...

. He left in 1990. He worked as a journalist in Bladet Tromsø

Bladet Tromsø

Bladet Tromsø is a daily newspaper published in Tromsø, Norway by Bladet Tromsø A/S, a subsidiary of Harstad Tidende, and through this part of the Schibsted Group. In 2006 the paper had an average circulation of about 110.000. It distributes daily, except Sundays...

in 1990 and Vårt Land

Vårt Land (Norwegian newspaper)

Vårt Land is a daily newspaper published in Oslo. It has a nationwide target audience. Its average daily circulation in 2007 was 27.146, it was Norway's 23rd largest newspaper...

from 1991 to 1992, and then as information director in the European Movement Norway

European Movement

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 from 1992 to 1995 and information consultant in Gambit the next year. He worked as a journalist in Bergens Tidende

Bergens Tidende

Bergens Tidende is Norway's fourth largest newspaper and largest newspaper outside Oslo, with a circulation of about 87,000 copies . Founded in 1868, it is a Norwegian-language newspaper published daily in Bergen. It reaches approximately 260,000 readers every day , mainly in the counties of...

from 1996 to 2009, and then became an editor in 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...

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He has written two books, including the 2007 biography on Einar Førde

Einar Førde

Einar Førde was the Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1979–1981, and director-general of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1989-2001...

 for which he won the Brage Prize

Brage Prize

The Brage Prize is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation...

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Rossavik is openly gay

Gay

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, and has been called "the best writer among the homosexuals" by Christian Conservative

Christian conservative

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 Finn Jarle Sæle.