Per Egil Hegge was born in Trondheim[1] as a son of two teachers from Skatval Municipality.

[2] Hegge served his military service at the elite Russian language program of the Norwegian Armed Forces.

He was then expelled from the country, one of the reasons for this being that he was the first journalist to interview Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.

When it comes to perceptions of the Norwegian language quality development, Hegge has been called a "housegod of the dissatisfied" by literary critic Aage Borchgrevink.

He wrote several books, starting with world affairs,[3][4] and later about the correct use of language and other popular releases.