Jahn Otto Johansen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jahn Otto Johansen

Norwegian editor

Date of Birth: 03-May-1934

Place of Birth: Porsgrunn, Eastern Norway, Norway

Date of Death: 01-Jan-2018

Profession: writer, professor, biographer, contributing editor, journalist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Jahn Otto Johansen (3 May 1934 – 1 January 2018) was a Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, foreign correspondent and non-fiction writer. He worked for the newspaper Morgenposten from 1956 to 1966, for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) from 1966 to 1977, and was chief editor of Dagbladet from 1977 to 1984.
He has been a foreign correspondent for NRK in Moscow, Washington D.C.
and Berlin.
He wrote about sixty books, including several bestsellers.He received the Cappelen Prize in 1982, shared with Bjørg Vik, who died six days after Johansen.