Helge Rykkja [SEP] date of birth
Helge Rykkja
Helge Rykkja (born 27 August 1943) is a Norwegian author, poet, teacher and politician.
He was born in Mysen, started working at a lower secondary school in Kragerø in 1974 and took the cand.philol. degree in 1979. From 1966 to 1970, he was an editorial board member of the radical periodical "Profil", and from 1968, he was a chief editor. He represented the Red Electoral Alliance in Kragerø city council from 1987 to 2003; some times as a deputy representative.
- Mary Synnøve Kvidal, politician and Minister
- Eldbjørg Løwer, politician
- Ola H. Metliaas, civil servant and politician (died 2005)
- Helge Rykkja, author, poet, teacher and politician
Notable deaths.
- 9 January – Anathon Aall, academic (born 1867)
- 18 January – Urban Jacob Rasmus Børresen, rear admiral (born 1857)
- 10 February – Sverre Granlund, commando (born 1918)
- 28 February – Leonhard Hess Stejneger, zoologist (born 1851