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Jan Tystad
Jan Tystad is a Norwegian journalist and author, living in London for many years. He has been a correspondent for Norwegian newspapers in London and written seven books in Norwegia...ver maisJan Tystad is a Norwegian journalist and author, living in London for many years. He has been a correspondent for Norwegian newspapers in London and written seven books in Norwegian.
The author has been a war correspondent and reported from wars in Nigeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Bosnia and written about the famines in Ethiopia and Sudan. He has written books about hunger and refugees and the arms trade. He has also written two books about children in wars.
The author was born in Bergen, Norway in 1936. He experienced as a child the German invasion and occupation of Norway as a four years old boy. After the war he worked in local Norwegian newspaper before he took his law degree I 1964 at the university of Oslo. Then he went back to become a journalist in one of the leading Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.
He now lives in London and he has been a pen friend for eight years with Dennis Sochor, who has been on Death Row in Florida for 33 years, This is a book based on the letters between him and the prisoner and a critical view about the use of death penalty. Dennis Sochor is very happy now because the book will be published in English.ver menos