Bengt Calmeyer (journalist)


Bengt Calmeyer is a Norwegian journalist and novelist. He was born in Oslo, and is a brother of actor Joachim Calmeyer. He was assigned with the newspaper Arbeiderbladet from 1959, where he was a foreign correspondent in London from 1965, and later cultural editor. His books include NRK – myter og virkelighet from 1977 and Forsinket oppgjør: arbeiderbevegelsen og den politiske overvåking from 1993. He has written the crime novels Åpen grav and De hemmelige døde, where the detective is a freelance journalist. Later fictional works include the trilogy Mennesker from 1997, Vitner from 1999 and Spor from 2000.