Aage Storm Borchgrevink (born 1969) is a Norwegian human rights activist,[1] writer and literary critic. He works at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, where he focuses on the human rights situation in Russia, Chechnya and Georgia.
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Aage Borchgrevink | |
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Born | 1969 |
Occupation | Human rights activist, writer and literary critic |
He was born in Oslo, and graduated in literary history at the University of Oslo.[2] His fiction releases are the novel Arkivene from 2000 and the short story collection Folkevandringer from 2004.[3] He has written two travelogues; Eurostories. Reiser i Øst-Europa (2003) and Den usynlige krigen. Reiser i Tsjetsjenia, Ingusjetia og Dagestan (2007). As a literary critic he publishes in Vinduet and in newspapers.[2]
Borchgrevink has worked in the Helsinki Committee in Norway since 1993 as an adviser, mainly on human rights in Russia and other post-Soviet countries.[2]
In 2004 he was awarded the Ossietzky Award by the Norwegian PEN for his "outstanding promotion of free speech".[4]
In 2012 he received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for his biography of terrorist Anders Behring Breivik.[5]
One example is Norwegian author and human rights activist Aage Borchgrevink
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