Valborg Platou

Valborg Platou (29 August 1839 – 29 December 1928) was a Norwegian librarian, writer and art critic.

[1] She was the first Norwegian female to become the chief librarian, a position that she held for 27 years at the Bergen Public Library.

[1] Her family moved from Christiania to Bergen, where she completed her school education at Sophie Wever's women's institute.

Since her childhood, she showed interest in literary works and published a collection of poems.

[4][5] She worked as a cultural journalist, and associated with number of newspapers in Norway including De Bergenske Adressecontoirs-Efterretninger and Bergens Aftenblad.