Bjørn Bjørnsen (born 16 August 1937) is a Norwegian journalist, non-fiction writer and politician.
He was born in Hillevåg, Stavanger to merchant Bernhard Bjørnsen (1901–75) and his wife Marie Magnusson (1902–83).
[1] Bjørnsen quit school at a young age and started his journalistic career when fifteen years old.
[3] Bjørnsen wrote two books on the history of Norway during the Second World War: Det utrolige døgnet ("The incredible day", 1977) and Narvik 1940 (1980).
[4] In 1969, he published Hva sensuren tok ("What the censorship took") together with Tore Erlandsen and Kjell Thon.