Ase Kleveland

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Åse Kleveland (18 March 1949 - )

Kleveland, the daughter of Swedish bookkeeper Eva Hansson and Norwegian civil engineer Olaf Kleveland, was born in Sweden. She became Norway's Minister of Culture from 1990 to 1996.

Her father, because of the Nazi occupation, had fled from Norway to Sweden in 1943, staying with family friends. In 1957, when he worked for the Institute for Atomic Energy, the family moved north of Oslo to Romerike.

In a 1977 interview with Einar Efjestad, Kleveland told how her parents shared equally in the household chores, adding that she and her then-husband Svenolov Ehrén, a Swedish artist, did the same. She now is married to film director and cinematographer Oddvar Bull Tuhus.

Kleveland is fluent in Norwegian, Swedish, English, French and Japanese. She studied Law at the University of Oslo.

A well-known folk singer and traditional guitarist in Norway, she was appointed Minister of Culture in Norway from 1990 to 1996, representing the Labour Party under the Gro Harlem Brundtland. See her musical curriculum vitae.

In 2010 she is President of Norway’s humanist organization, Human-Etisk Forbund.

{Efjestad, Einar (1977). "KJ spør, trubaduren Åse Kleveland svarer...!" (in Norwegian). Kriminal Journalen (Oslo) 1977 (3): 10–11,45}