Nils Ivar Agøy (born 19 November 1959) is a Norwegian historian, theologian, tolkienologist and translator.
degree in history at the University of Oslo in 1987, with the master's thesis Kampen mot vernetvangen.
Hemmelige sikkerhetsstyrker i Norge sett i et skandinavisk perspektiv explored the military precautions against "inner enemies"—defined as revolutionary segments—between the 1905 Norwegian independence and the Second World War, against a Scandinavian backdrop.
He concluded that the relations between Christians and labour leaders were less marked by strife and more by cooperation that hitherto believed.
[4] He has later been a jury member for the children's literature class of the Bastian Prize, which is awarded by the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators.