[rediger] Some of my hobbies

Trekking in Northern Norwegian mountains.

Travelling by train around Europe (Interrail)

Classical music, mostly Baroque. Favourite composer is J.S. Bach. Here are a few ((classical music rec|recommennded works and recordings)).

Journalism, writing for the campus newspaper.

Marathon, skiing (previous, but now I’m rather lazy…)

Language learning: Reading books in German, French, Italian and Spanish. Hobbyist study of etymology and Latin. But my skills are too lousy to expect me to be able to speak those languages:-)

Image manipulation with Adobe Photoshop. ((Bildebehandling galleri|Some of my creations)).

NOT among my hobbies

- Watching TV, sitcoms

- Computer games

- Fast cars

[rediger] Reading

Some of my favourite reading and most admired authors published in English:

History : Peter Englund, Moses Finley, Barbara Tuchman, A.D. Chandler, F. Braudel, and perhaps even Snorre Sturlason

Novels : Knut Hamsun, Umberto Eco, Franz Kafka

Comics : Anything by Carl Barks

Economics : Hal Varian, F.Sejersted, J.K.Galbraith

Science : Stewen Hawking, Bjørn Lomborg, Matt Ridley, Jared Diamond, R.Leakey

Social Science : Max Weber, Stein Rokkan

Magazines : The Economist, Wired (Der Spiegel)

Favourite cities I have been to:

1. Rome 2. Florence 3. Copenhagen 4. Prague 5. Amsterdam 6. Munich 7. Napoli

Undeserved unknown: Trier, Bamberg (Germany), Røros, Lillesand (Norway), Gent (Belgium)

[rediger] Family

My sister is 10 years old and lives together with my father, who is a painter, in Oslo. On this page you can see his 100 best paintings since 1965. My mother Gro, is a best selling author and relationship advicer living South of Oslo.

Favourite bear and favourite mountain flower :-)