Career
He spent the better part of his career as cultural editor of Stavanger Aftenblad. He debuted as a fiction author at 55 years of age in 1980 with publication of the novel Dobbel frukt. By that time he had issued several African-themed non-fiction books, including Afrika i dag—og i morgen (1969), Rapport om apartheid (1971) and Sør-Afrika: Siste trekk (1986).
In 1987 he was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for the documentary novel Narren og hans mester about the painter Lars Hertervig.