Carl Johan Frederik Jakhelln (27 August 1914 – 25 April 1987) was a Norwegian diplomat and writer.
He was born in Andenne, Belgium,[1] as the son of jurist and diplomatist Johan Fredrik Winter Jakhelln.
The family lived in five countries when Jakhelln was young, and he took his first higher education at Sorø Academy before moving to Norway.
From 1948 to 1960 he worked for the United Nations in New York City, South Korea, Laos and Togoland.
[2] He was then a counsellor at the Norwegian embassy in Denmark from 1960 to 1966, and then became consul-general in Marseille in 1966, Bremen in 1971 and Le Havre in 1975.