Leif B. Lillegaard

Who was Leif B. Lillegaard?

Leif B. Lillegaard was a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor, radio reporter and novelist.

He was editor for the newspaper Harstad Tidende, a journalist for the newspaper Morgenbladet, and a freelance radio reporter for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. He made his literary debut in 1963, with a book on the 1943 Filipstad explosion. He wrote more than one hundred books, both fiction and non-fiction, and was awarded the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize in 1981 for the story Mor.