Asbjørn Øksendal

Asbjørn Øksendal (4 August 1922 – 23 May 2015) was a Norwegian novelist and non-fiction writer. He was born in Mosjøen, Helgeland. He wrote several books on the subject of the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, including Lurøy-affæren from 1966, Operasjon Oleander from 1968, Når nøden er størst (on POW camps in Trøndelag) from 1969, Sluttspill i Rinnans bandekloster (on Sonderabteilung Lola) from 1971, and Gulltransporten (on the flight of the Norwegian National Treasury) from 1974. He also wrote novels from the Viking Age.^[1] He died in May 2015.^[2]

References

1. "Asbjørn Øksendal". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
2. Sande, Bård (27 May 2015). "Asbjørn Øksendal er død". Adresseavisen (in Norwegian). p. 44.