Knut Olav Åmås

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Knut Olav Åmås
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Born (1968-01-19) 19 January 1968 (age 56)
Occupation writer and editor
Nationality Norwegian
Education dr.philos.

Knut Olav Åmås (born 19 January 1968) is a Norwegian writer, editor and politician for the Conservative Party.

He hails from Odda. He holds a cand.philol. degree in philosophy, having taken his master's thesis on Ludwig Wittgenstein at the University of Bergen.[1] He later took a dr.philos. degree on a biographical thesis about Olav H. Hauge. He has worked as a journalist in Bergens Tidende, and is from 2006 debate editor (from 2008: editor of culture and debate) in Aftenposten. He was an editor in the publishing house Universitetsforlaget from 1996 to 2001, and edited the periodical Samtiden from 2001 to 2006.[2] In 2013 he was named in Solberg's Cabinet as State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs.[3]

Åmås is openly gay.[4] He is in a relationship with editor Knut Aastad Bråten.[5]

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