Else Michelet


Else Michelet is a Norwegian journalist, satirical writer and songwriter.
She was born in Trondheim as a daughter of teacher Frans Oscar Michelet and housewife Synnøve Kulseng. The family moved to Bærum in 1947, and Michelet graduated from the University of Oslo with a cand.mag. degree. She has worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1967; in the radio from 1973. She contributed to the entertainment programs Nitimen and Reiseradioen, and worked with the weekly satirical radio show Hallo i uken from 1990. She was its producer from 1993 to 2009.
She has also written several books: Sin egen herre: eventyr og annet ugress, En annen historie and the novel Ariadnes tråd: et reiseliv. Michelet was awarded the Fritt Ord Honorary Award in 2009.
From 1977 to 1979 she was married to Ingjald Ørbeck Sørheim.