Kristin Solberg Explained

Kristin Solberg (born 1982) is a Norwegian journalist and author. She is the Middle East correspondent for NRK and presently based in Beirut. Previously she covered the Middle East and South Asia forAftenposten.

Solberg has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Sheffield University and a master's degree in international relations from London school of Economics. She has also studied Arabic in Lebanon and worked for a newspaper there. After working temporarily for Aftenposten in Norway in 2007, she started as a freelance correspondent in New Delhi and became the South Asia correspondent for Aftenposten. She was based in Kabul from 2011 and 2013. In 2013 she became based in Cairo as a Middle East correspondent.^{[1] [2] [3]} In December 2014 she got the position of correspondent in Istanbul where she will cover West-Asia and part of the Middle East.^[4]

She has written one book about Pakistan and one about a midwife school in Afghanistan.

Awards

• International Reporter Journalist Prize for Gjennom de renes land - Rapport fra Pakistan (2011)
• Den store journalistprisen, with Anders Sømme Hammer (2014)
• The Bjørnson Prize (2014)

Bibliography

• Gjennom de renes land - Rapport fra Pakistan 2011
• Livets skole 2013

Notes and References

1. Guro Havro Bjørnstad (31 September 2012) Gjennom mørke linser Universitas. from the original 16 November 2014
2. http://www.nordiskemediedager.no/program/speakers/kristin-solberg/ Kristin Solberg
3. Stine Okkelmo (2 January 2014) - Jeg kunne ikke gå ut alene KK.
4. Daniel Eriksen (3 December 2014) Slik er NRKs nye korrespondenter NRK.