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About Arve Solstad
- Arve Solstad (15 November 1935 – 3 June 2016) was a Norwegian newspaper editor. He was born in Orkdal as a son of farmer Johan Solstad (1896–1989) and Marit Skauge (1910–2000).
- He finished his secondary education in Orkdal in 1955, worked one year as editor-in-chief of Akershus Folkeblad before enrolling in studies of political science at the University of Oslo.
- He wrote for the newspaper Dagbladet, including summaries of debates in the Norwegian Students' Society.
- He was hired permanently in Dagbladet after graduation in 1964.
- Also, in 1961 he married nurse Inger Marie Richter.He won the Narvesen Prize for journalism already in 1968.
- From 1969 to 1973 he was the political editor of the newspaper, and in 1973 he became editor-in-chief.
- The newspaper then had two chief editors, and between 1977 and 1980 it had three, but from 1984 to 1990 Solstad was the sole editor.
- The newspaper assumed the tabloid format during his tenure.
- Solstad was then political editor from 1990 to 1995, and a journalist from 1995 to 2002.
- He was also leader of the Norwegian Association for Media History from 1993 to 2003, and professor of journalism at the University of Oslo from 1994.
- In 2000 he received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award.
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