Background
She is the daughter of novelist and politician Jon Michelet and Toril Brekke.
She is the daughter of novelist and politician Jon Michelet and Toril Brekke.
Marte Michelet moved into an apartment in Oslo, that once had housed a young Jewish girl who was deported to Auschwitz. She started her career in RadiOrakel and as a journalist in Norsk Rikskringkasting. She was also at one point the restaurant critic Robinson & Fredag.
In 2006 she was hired in Dagbladet, where she rose to political commentator. In 2014 she released the book Den største forbrytelsen about the Holocaust in Norway, receiving rave reviews and promptly winning the Brage Prize.