Halfdan Wexel Freihow (born 7 May 1959) is a Norwegian literary critic, novelist, editor and book publisher.
[2] He was a translator, publishing house consultant and literary critic for Morgenbladet, Arbeiderbladet and NRK P2 in his early career.
[3] In 1985, together with fellow literary critics André Savik and Lasse Tømte, he published an anthology named Ord for andre.
[3] In 1990 he quit his literary critic job in Arbeiderbladet to become acting editor of Bokklubben Dagens Bok.
The book was issued on Freihow's own publishing house Font Forlag,[10] which was started in 2006.