Gidske Anderson was a Norwegian

Norway

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 journalist and a member of the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

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. She worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) and then the newspaper Arbeiderbladet

Dagsavisen

Dagsavisen is a daily newspaper published in Oslo, Norway. The former party organ of the Norwegian Labour Party, the ties loosened over time from 1975 to 1999, and it is now fully independent...

(1954–64) in Paris

Paris

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. from 1964 to 1967 she was a freelance journalist in the United States. She became editor of the foreign affairs section of Arbeiderbladet from 1967 to 1972, and then was Paris correspondent for NRK from 1973 to 1975. She sat on the Norwegian Nobel Committee

Norwegian Nobel Committee

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize each year.Its five members are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament and roughly represent the political makeup of that body.-History:...

 from 1981 to 1993, and chaired it in part of 1990 following the death of Egil Aarvik

Egil Aarvik

Egil Aarvik was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He was born in Børsa.-Career:He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in 1961, and was re-elected on two occasions...

. The remaining period she was the committee's first deputy chair.