Frode Helmich Pedersen
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Frode Helmich Pedersen (b 1976, Norway) is professor of Nordic Literature at the University of Bergen, literature critic and author. He has for many years been a literature critic in the newspapers Bergens Tidende and Morgenbladet and has also been active in debates and as a writer in other fields. He has been a member of the editorial board of the periodicals Prosopopeia, Vagant and Vinduet and has taught at the Writing Arts Academy.
In 2021 he published the essay anthology Splinten i øyet (Splinter in your eye), and in 2022 Forfølgelsen av Julian Assange (The Persecution of Julian Assange), which he wrote with Gisle Selnes.
In 2021 he was announced as Literature Critic of the Year by the Norwegian Critics’ Association.
