Olav Njølstad is a Norwegian historian, biographer and novelist. He is research manager at the Norwegian Nobel Institute

Norwegian Nobel Institute

The Norwegian Nobel Institute was established in 1904 in Kristiania , Norway.The principal duty of the Nobel Institute is to assist the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the task of selecting the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and to organize the annual Nobel event in Oslo.The institute is situated...

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Literary background

As a novelist he made his literary debut in 2003 with the thriller Mannen med oksehjertet, and wrote the novel Brennofferet in 2005.

His biography of resistance leader, government mistister and lawyer Jens Christian Hauge

Jens Christian Hauge

Jens Christian Hauge , often written Jens Chr. Hauge, was a Norwegian World War II resistance figure and politician who was the leader of the secret military organization Milorg during WWII...

 (Jens Chr. Hauge – fullt og helt from 2008) was well received by the critics.

Selected works

• Kunnskap om våpen: forsvarets forskningsinstitutt 1946 – 1975 (1997)
• Strålende forskning: Institutt for energiteknikk 1948 – 1998 (1999)
• War and Peace in the 20th Century and Beyond (edited with Geir Lundestad
  Geir Lundestad
  Geir Lundestad is a Norwegian historian, who serves as the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. In this capacity, he also serves as the secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. However, he is not a member of the committee itself....
  
  , 2002)
• Mannen med oksehjertet (thriller, 2003)
• Brennofferet (novel, 2005)
• Norske nobelprisvinnere: fra Bjørnson til Kydland (2005)
• Jens Chr. Hauge – fullt og helt (biography, 2008)