1. Torolf Elster was a Norwegian newspaper and radio journalist, magazine editor, novelist, crime fiction writer and writer of short stories.
10 Facts About Torolf Elster
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Torolf Elster was Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1972 to 1981.
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Torolf Elster's parents were author and literary critic Kristian Elster, Jr.
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Torolf Elster was married to poet and psychoanalyst Magli Elster.
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Torolf Elster was a sales manager at the publishing company Tiden Norsk Forlag in the late 1930s.
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Torolf Elster was a foreign editor for Arbeiderbladet from 1945 to 1946, and editor of the labour movement's magazine Kontakt from 1947 to 1954.
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Torolf Elster then wrote for Arbeiderbladet for almost ten years, from 1954 to 1963.
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Torolf Elster started working as a program manager for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1963, and was Director-General from 1972 to 1981.
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Torolf Elster was awarded the Riverton Prize for the crime novel Thomas Pihls annen lov.
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In 1986 he and Magli Torolf Elster were awarded the Fritt Ord Award.