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About Guri Tambs-Lyche
- Guri Tambs-Lyche (20 September 1917 – 13 March 2008) was a Norwegian activist for international solidarity and women's rights. She was born in Trondheim as a daughter of Ralph Tambs-Lyche and Elsa Rasmussen.
- Her father was a mathematician and Mot Dag affiliate, and from an early age Guri Tambs-Lyche was influenced by her father's speeches in the Student Society in Trondheim.
- Her mother was a pioneer in maternal hygiene work.
- Her father eventually became a professor.She studied technical drawing at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry, and joined the Workers' Youth League while studying.
- During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany she was a member of the resistance movement, so was her husband Wilhelm.
- Her job was to distribute illegal newspapers.
- After the war she joined the Communist Party of Norway, and wrote in Friheten, but she was excluded in the aftermath of the Peder Furubotn case.In 1948 she was a co-founder of Norges Demokratiske Kvinneforbund.
- In 1954 the organization became a part of Norsk Kvinneforbund.
- She was on the editorial board of their magazine Kvinner hjemme og ute, later named Kvinner i tiden, and was editor-in-chief for a time.
- She also participated on international women's congresses.
- After the death of her husband she lived in Sweden for seven years, then in Norway again where she rejoined the Communist Party.
- After the disbanding of Norsk Kvinneforbund, she became a prominent member in the national branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
- She lived in Lund, Sweden for the last two years of her life, and died her home on March 2008.
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