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Born: Fitjar, Sunnhordland, Norway

Education: (Sagavoll folkehøgskole), Voss (Vatles handelsskole), Øystese (Rossvoll gymnas), Bergen (Anton Johannesens videregående skole), Mallorca (Holtermans rejselederskole), Caen, France (l'Université de Caen), Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Málaga (Universidad de Málaga), Turku, Finland (course in Finnish language at a school near Kaarina), Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo).

I worked as a guide for two seasons at Borgund stavkirke (1988 and 1990), the best preserved of Norway's 29 stave churches. Uvdal stavkirke is another stave church at which I worked for two weeks in 1991 (located in Uvdal). The rest of the summer of 1991 I worked as a guide at the Christiania bymodell (town model) at Akershus Festning, Oslo.

In 1990 I initiated my studies at the University of Oslo. I finished my degree (cand.philol.) in 1998. First subject was the cumpulsory philosophy (examen philosophicum). Other subjects include French (mellomfag), religion history, moral philosophy and: Norwegian.

During my time as a student at the University of Oslo I had different jobs, two of which I stuck to for several years. I worked every summer 1992-2002 at the Kon-Tiki Museum . 

In 1995 I started working as an external advisor for the Norwegian language council, Norsk språkråd, where my job was to proofread and to survey the proofreading of school book manuscripts. From august 1997 till 2000 I worked there full time. From 2001 till 2007 I also worked at the largest Norwegian newspaper, VG.

Today I run a small firm (Rett norsk) in addition to working part time at the language council.