Grete Knudsen (13 October 1940 – 4 December 2023) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
[1] Knudsen was a teacher before her political career, and worked as principal of a special education school in Bergen.
[2] In 2008 she was appointed a member of the board of the National Gallery of Norway.
[3] On 13 August 2013 she released a book, Basketak (Brawl) that Stein Kåre Kristiansen (a political commentator for TV2) called "This is an unpleasant package of shit in the middle of the election campaign.
"[4] On the same day Jan-Erik Larsen said that he had spoken to party leaders at the lowest level, from all over Norway, and the verdict is clear: This is what the party needed the least, at the moment.