Hanna Kristine Kvanmo was a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party.
12 Facts About Hanna Kvanmo
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Hanna Kvanmo served as a Member of Parliament from 1973 to 1989, representing the county of Nordland, as the first parliamentary leader of the Socialist Left Party from 1977 to 1989.
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Hanna Kvanmo was a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 1991 to 2002, and served as the committee's vice chair from 1993 to 1998.
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Hanna Kvanmo worked for the thoroughly nazified German Red Cross in the ending years of the Second World War, and she was convicted for treason following her repatriation to Norway in 1947.
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Hanna Kvanmo grew up in a working-class family in the Norwegian town Harstad.
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Hanna Kvanmo's father was a fisherman and her mother was a factory worker.
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Hanna Kvanmo's parents were divorced, and she was brought up mostly by her mother.
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Hanna Kvanmo was stationed for some time on the Eastern Front, and in the last days of the war, she worked as a practical nurse in Berlin.
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Hanna Kvanmo received an 8-month prison sentence and a ten-year suspension of her rights as a citizen; the prison sentence was suspended after an appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Hanna Kvanmo joined local politics in Rana, and in 1973 she was elected to the Storting, representing the Socialist Left Party.
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Hanna Kvanmo described her perspective and her reasons for joining the German war effort in a book in 1990.
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Hanna Kvanmo later wished to withdraw the Peace Prize awarded to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres.