Lars Sigurd Sunnanå is a Norwegian journalist.

He was born in Karmøy and grew up in Porsgrunn

Porsgrunn

is a town and municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Porsgrunn....

, and worked in Varden and 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...

. He was awarded the Narvesen Prize

Narvesen Prize

The Narvesen Prize was a Norwegian prize for those who excelled in journalism. It was established in 1954 by the company Narvesen, but the Norwegian Press Association was behind the selection of winners...

 in 1971. In 1972 he was hired in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. He was their Middle East correspondent from 1999 to 2003, reportedly because he did not get the job as China correspondent, as he had wanted. In 2010 he applied for the job as United States correspondent, but he was instead hired as correspondent for the whole of Africa. The headquarter is in Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

.

In 2004 he wrote the book Saddams fortrolige together with Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...

's physician Ala Bashir

Ala Bashir

Ala Bashir is the most celebrated Iraqi painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon. His works of art have been shown in several international exhibitions in, for example, France , the United Kingdom , Ireland , Austria , Germany , Yugoslavia , Italy , Russia , Qatar , Morocco , Libya...

. The book was translated to Finnish, German, Swedish, Dutch, Estonian, Spanish, Japanese and Russian. In 2005 came Oppdraget. Innsidehistorien om Saddams atomvåpen, about nuclear weapons in Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

, together with Jafar D. Jafar and Numan Saadaldin al-Niaimi. In 2008 came Skibbrudd. En dokumentar om Redningsselskapets skjulte liv, a critical book about the Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue.

He is a nephew of Klaus Sunnanå

Klaus Sunnanå

Klaus Sunnanå was a Norwegian Mot Dag member, economist and fisheries director.He was born in Avaldsnes as a son of teacher and farmer Knut Andreas Søndenaa and Lisa Kristine Thuestad . He took his secondary education at Voss in 1926, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the...

. He is married and his son Lars Magne Sunnanå is a former local politician (Conservative

Conservative Party of Norway

The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...

) in Bærum

Bærum

is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandvika. Bærum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. A suburb of Oslo, Bærum is located on the west coast of the city....

, where the family lives. Lars Sigurd Sunnanå was himself a member of the Norwegian Young Conservatives

Norwegian Young Conservatives

Norwegian Young Conservatives is a Norwegian youth party. Its ideology is liberal conservatism, and the party is in many ways more liberal than its mother party, Conservative Party of Norway. Henrik Asheim succeeded Torbjørn Røe Isaksen as leader in 2008.- Leaders :...

 in his youth. He is also a freemason.