Jahn Otto Johansen
Norwegian journalist, news anchor and editor (1934–2018)
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.
Selected works
Nikita Sergejevitsj Krusjtsjov: En kortfattet biografi Aschehoug (1960) (Oversatt av Jahn Otto Johansen)
Studiet av Sovjetsamveldet: Referat fra en studiekonferanse 7.- 9.11.1959 (1960) (redaktør) (Norsk selskap for Sovjetstudier, i samarbeid med Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt (NUPI))
Polen mellom øst og vest Aschehoug (1962)
Ti år uten Stalin Nasjonalforlaget (1963) (Skrevet sammen med Halfdan Hegtun)
Rapport fra Sovjet - Aschehoug 1963
Moskva-Peking: Den nye kalde krigen Aschehoug (1964) (Skrevet av Edward Crankshaw, tillegg av Jahn Otto Johansen).
Øst-Europa i forvandling Aschehoug (1965)
The difficult adaptation process of the Norwegian Communist Party in light of de-stalinization, the Soviet-China conflict and Khruschev's fall NUPI (1965) (Skrevet sammen med Karin Stoltenberg og Joan M. Torgersen).
Titokratiet: Den jugoslaviske reformprosess Pax (1967)
Sovjetunionen gjennom 50 år (red.) Tiden (1967)
Tsjekkoslovakias skjebnetime (1968)
Rapport fra Kina, 1972
Jøde og araber, 1974
Min jiddische mamma, 1980
Supermaktsavspenningen i nytt perspektiv Den Norske Atlanterhavskomité (1981)
Det polske drama Cappelen (1981)
Ludvig Eikaas Stenersen (1981)
Torolf Elster: Portrett av et mangesidig menneske Tiden (1981)(Skrevet sammen med Birgit Gjernes og Reidar Hirsti).
Min jødiske reise Cappelen ( (1982)
Gunnar S. Gundersen Stenersen (1982)
Vår tids skjebnedrama: Krig og fred i atomalderen (red.) Aschehoug (1982)
Øst-Europa etter Polen Den Norske Atlanterhavskomité (1983)
Min jødiske krig Cappelen (1983)
Finland: Det muliges kunst Cappelen (1983)
Det hendte også her Cappelen (1984)
Ustasja Cappelen (1984)
Øst-Europa og det tyske spørsmål Den Norske Atlanterhavskomité (1984)
Befolkningsbomben: Overbefolkning, krig og fred Cappelen (1985) (Skrevet sammen med Arne Fjørtoft og Thor Heyerdahl).
Russland, Russland Cappelen (1985)
Anti-semittismens spøkelse Ansgar (1985)
Sovjetunionens utenrikspolitikk: Geografi eller ideologi?
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