Per Thomsen

Per Berle Thomsen (17 August 1905 – 22 October 1983) was a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor. He spent his entire journalistic career with the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad, and was chief editor from 1955 to 1973.

Personal life Born in Bergen on 17 August 1905, Thomsen was a son of merchant Wilhelm Olai Thomsen and Karen Berntsen. He married journalist Ruth Øverland in 1936. He was a brother-in-law of newspaper editor and politician Christian S. Oftedal,

Career Thomsen was a journalist for Stavanger Aftenblad from 1926 to 1941. In the 1930s he wrote a series of humorous books about his mountain hiking experiences, the first was På Tomannsfot (1932). Similar books are Med kikkert på magen (1933), Tomannsbu (1934), and Hypp, all mine hester (1935). He also issued a free translation of J.A. Lees' and W.J. Clutterbuck's travelogue Three in Norway (by two of them) into Norwegian language. In 1942 he published the children's book Tunnelen. He was acting chief editor from 1945 to 1949, news editor from 1949 to 1955, and then editor-in-chief for Stavanger Aftenblad from 1955 to 1973.