Egil Helle

Egil Helle (28 April 1923 – 2006) was a Norwegian newspaper editor, information worker and biographer.

[1] He started his journalist career in 1942, during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, in the illegal press.

The name of his illegal newspaper changed several times, from Ukenytt via Norges Demring to Fram.

He authored biographies of Oscar Torp (1982), Einar Gerhardsen (1987), Christian Holtermann Knudsen (1988), Nils Langhelle (1991) and Kyrre Grepp (1995).

In 1984, he wrote a Norwegian petroleum history,[2] and he has also written books about the Folketeatret building and Biblioteksentralen.