Kristin Solberg

Kristin Solberg (born 1982) is a Norwegian journalist and author. She is the Middle East correspondent for NRK and presently based in Beirut. Previously she covered the Middle East and South Asia forAftenposten.

Solberg has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Sheffield University and a master's degree in international relations from London school of Economics. She has also studied Arabic in Lebanon and worked for a newspaper there. In December 2014 she got the position of correspondent in Istanbul where she will cover West-Asia and part of the Middle East.

She has written one book about Pakistan and one about a midwife school in Afghanistan.

Awards International Reporter Journalist Prize for Gjennom de renes land - Rapport fra Pakistan (2011) Den store journalistprisen, with Anders Sømme Hammer (2014) The Bjørnson Prize (2014)