Lars Roar Langslet was Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 Minister of Education and Church Affairs (culture and science affairs only, not church affairs) in 1981, and Minister of Culture and Science 1982-1986 for the Conservative Party

Conservative Party of Norway

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As Norway has a Lutheran State Church, his ministry had to be divided, since Langslet was a converted Catholic, and hence could not be in charge of the affairs of the state church.

He is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature

Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature

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. In 1984 he received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award.