| Reidar Øksnevad | |
| Birth Date: | 13 May 1884 |
| Birth Place: | Kristiansand, Norway |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Relatives: | Toralv Øksnevad (brother) |
| Occupation: | journalist, bibliographer and librarian |
Reidar Øksnevad (13 May 1884 - 31 January 1958) was a Norwegian journalist, bibliographer and librarian.
He was born in Kristiansand to teacher Arnt Øksnevad and Kirsten Torine Folkvord, and was a brother of Toralv Øksnevad. Øksnevad lived in Paris for 34 years. He lectured at Sorbonne from 1913 to 1919, and was a foreign correspondent for Dagbladet and other media, and was assigned as a librarian at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève from 1924 to 1928 and from 1940 to 1945. He published around forty books, including several bibliographies. Among his works is the two-volume Norsk litteraturhistorisk bibliografi, covering the periods 1900–1945 and 1946–1955. He was decorated as a Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officier d'Académie.[1] [2]