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About Egil Helle
- Egil Helle (28 April 1923 – 2006) was a Norwegian newspaper editor, information worker and biographer. He was born in Bergen.
- He started his journalist career in 1942, during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, in the illegal press.
- The name of his illegal newspaper changed several times, from Ukenytt via Norges demring to Fram.
- He had to flee to Sweden towards the end of World War II.
- After the war he worked as a journalist in Bergens Arbeiderblad from 1945 to 1952 and in Arbeiderbladet from 1952 to 1961.
- He was then the editor-in-chief of Bergens Arbeiderblad from 1961 to 1964, before working on the editor's board of Arbeiderbladet from 1964 to 1975.
- He was the press spokesman in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1975 to 1978, and information director in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy from 1978 to 1991.
- He was the first to hold this post in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, and saw seven government ministers come and go during his time.Helle was a prolific non-fiction writer.
- He authored biographies of Oscar Torp (1982), Einar Gerhardsen (1987), Christian Holtermann Knudsen (1988), Nils Langhelle (1991) and Kyrre Grepp (1995).
- In 1984, he wrote a Norwegian petroleum history, and he has also written books about the Folketeatret building and Biblioteksentralen.Helle was married, and lived in Oslo.
- He died in April 2006.
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