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About Erik Tumyr
- Erik Tumyr (27 November 1962 – 16 April 2011) was a Norwegian journalist. He was the son of journalist, newspaper editor and politician Arne Tumyr.
- He started his career in Nybrott in 1983, where his father had been editor-in-chief since 1970.
- He then worked for Rjukan Arbeiderblad and Dagbladet Sørlandet.
- In 1988 he was hired in Osloavisen, and as it went defunct after a short time, he went on to Verdens Gang.
- At the advent of 2001 he started in Dagens Næringsliv, and in 2002 he won a SKUP Award for revealing that billionaire Kjell Inge Røkke owned and steered a yacht without the appropriate seafaring certificate.
- Tumyr worked in gossip magazine Se og Hør from 2003, later in Kapital.He wrote two books, the first with Frank Gander about the Orderud case.
- Titled Da døden kom til Orderud, it was released in 2002.
- In 2005 he published a memoir book named Journalistjævler.He had one daughter.
- He sustained a serious head trauma in the summer of 2010, was in a coma for some time before recovering, but he died in April 2011.
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