Knut Olav Åmås (born 19 January 1968) is a Norwegian writer, editor and politician for the Conservative Party.

degree in philosophy, having taken his master's thesis on Ludwig Wittgenstein at the University of Bergen.

He was an editor in the publishing house Universitetsforlaget from 1996 to 2001, and edited the periodical Samtiden from 2001 to 2006.

[2] In 2013, he was named in Solberg's Cabinet as State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs.

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