About Marte Michelet
Born 1975. Marte Michelet is a Norwegian journalist, non-fiction writer and reporter.
Marte Brekke Michelet (born 26 May 1975) is a Norwegian journalist, critic and non-fiction writer.
She is the daughter of novelist and politician Jon Michelet and Toril Brekke. They resided in Lindeberg, Oslo before her parents split up. Marte Michelet moved into an apartment in Oslo, that once had housed a young Jewish girl who was deported to Auschwitz.
She started her career in RadiOrakel and as a journalist in NRK. In 2006 she was hired in Dagbladet, where she rose to political commentator. She was also at one point the restaurant critic Robinson & Fredag. She resigned in 2014 when moving with her former husband Ali Esbati to Sweden; he was elected as a member of Parliament there.
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Norwegian journalist
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Marte Michelet was born on 26 May 1975 in Oslo.
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