| Leif B. Lillegaard | |
| Birth Name: | Leif Bryde Lillegaard |
| Birth Date: | 1 May 1918 |
| Birth Place: | Sandnessjøen, Norway |
| Death Place: | Trondheim |
| Occupation: | Journalist Newspaper editor Radio reporter Novelist |
| Awards: | Norwegian Booksellers' Prize |
Leif B. Lillegaard (1 May 1918, Sandnessjøen - 24 April 1994) 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 Norwegian: Mor.[1] [2]