Kristin Solberg

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.

Kristin Solberg

Solberg has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Sheffield University and a masters degree in international relations from London school of Economics. She has also studied Arabic in Lebanon and worked for a newspaper there.[1] 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.[2][3][4] In December 2014 she got the position of correspondent in Istanbul where she will cover West-Asia and part of the Middle East.[1]

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 ISBN 9788203293153
• Livets skole 2013 ISBN 978-82-03-29341-2

References

1. Daniel Eriksen (3 December 2014) Slik er NRKs nye korrespondenter NRK.
2. Guro Havro Bjørnstad (31 September 2012) Gjennom mørke linser (in Norwegian) Universitas. Archived November 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine from the original 16 November 2014
3. Kristin Solberg (in Norwegian) Norske mediedager. Archived November 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine from the original 16 November 2014
4. Stine Okkelmo (2 January 2014) - Jeg kunne ikke gå ut alene (in Norwegian) KK.