Kjell Fjørtoft was a Norwegian journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

, non-fiction writer, photographer and film maker, born in Tromsø

Tromsø

Tromsø is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.Tromsø city is the ninth largest urban area in Norway by population, and the seventh largest city in Norway by population...

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Fjørtoft wrote books about themes such as World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, espionage and hunters. Among his books are Spionfamilien from 1986, about the convicted spy Selmer Nilsen

Selmer Nilsen

Selmer Nilsen was a Norwegian fisherman spying for the GRU during the Cold War.He was active in Bodø from 1956 to 1963, and reported Bodø landings and take-offs of the American espionage plane Lockheed U-2 to the Soviet Union...

 and his family. He produced 25 television programmes for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, and also produced more than thirty film documentaries about Northern Norway. He was awarded Troms

Troms

or Romsa is a county in North Norway, bordering Finnmark to the northeast and Nordland in the southwest. To the south is Norrbotten Län in Sweden and further southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland. To the west is the Norwegian Sea...

County's Cultural Prize for 1983. Fjørtoft died on 14 May 2010.

Books

• Dramaet på Arnøy (1981)
• Vi fikk vår frihet (1984)
• Spionfamilien (1986)
• Oppgjøret som aldri tok slutt (1997)