Aage Borchgrevink

Aage Storm Borchgrevink (born 20 October, 1969) is a Norwegian human rights activist, writer and literary critic. He works at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, where he focuses on the human rights situation in Russia, Chechnya and Georgia. He has written eight fiction and non-fiction books since his debut Arkivene. He is chair of the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association.

Career

He was born in Oslo, and graduated in literary history at the University of Oslo. His fiction releases are the novel Arkivene from 2000 and the short story collection Folkevandringer from 2004. 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.

Awards In 2004 he was awarded the Ossietzky Award by the Norwegian PEN for his "outstanding promotion of free speech".

In 2012 he received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for his biography of terrorist Anders Behring Breivik.

In 2022 he was nominated for the Brage Prize for his book about Putin, Krigsherren i Kreml – Putin og hans tid ("The War Lord in the Kremlin – Putin and his Time").