Knut Olav Åmås | |
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Born | 19 January 1968 |
Occupation | writer and editor |
Nationality | Norwegian |
Education | dr.philos. |
Notable works | Conservative Party |
Knut Olav Åmås (born 19 January 1968) is a Norwegian writer, editor and politician for the Conservative Party.
He hails from Odda. He holds a cand.philol. degree in philosophy, having taken his master's thesis on Ludwig Wittgenstein at the University of Bergen. [1] He later took a dr.philos. degree on a biographical thesis about Olav H. Hauge. He has worked as a journalist in Bergens Tidende, and is from 2006 debate editor (from 2008: editor of culture and debate) in Aftenposten. He was an editor in the publishing house Universitetsforlaget from 1996 to 2001, and edited the periodical Samtiden from 2001 to 2006. [2] In 2013, he was named in Solberg's Cabinet as State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs. [3] He is currently the Director of Fritt Ord.
Åmås is openly gay. [4]