TOP JOB: Trine Skei Grande, here during Arendal week in 2020. Photo: Frode Hansen / VG
The former Venstre leader (54) will be the new head of the Publishers’ Association.
yesterday at 14:44
– I am very proud and happy that we have now hired Trine Skei Grande as the new managing director of the Publishers Association, says chairman Arne Magnus in a press release on Wednesday.
The Publishers’ Association works to support and improve the publishing industry’s culture, legislation and economy.
Skei Grande has a long career in Norwegian politics, including as Minister of Culture and Gender Equality, Minister of Knowledge and Integration, and ten years as party leader in the Liberal Party.
– With her long experience as a politician, she brings with her a sincere commitment to the book industry and to literature policy in Norway, and we are looking forward to having her in place, continues Magnus.
Rejoices
In recent years, she has worked as director of sustainability in the communications agency Sopra Steria Footprint.
Skei Grande says she is looking forward to starting the job.
– The field of literature faces major challenges and changes. We need solutions that can take care of our language and our literature and the democratic power of people being able and willing to read, she says and adds:
– We need an understanding that literature needs an active policy so that the stories and knowledge created by our authors can be disseminated widely to people. I look forward to working to ensure that the field of literature works together towards that goal.
She takes up the position on 1 April this year.
The Publishers’ Association was founded in 1895 and includes most major Norwegian publishers.
Left politics
Skei Grande resigned as leader of Venstre in the spring of 2020. At the same time, she left the government and said no to re-election to the Storting.
She has also self-published a book. In “Oppreist” almost four years ago, she unfolded her own victories and defeats, basket attacks and power struggles in her own party, in the Storting and the government, and the political game that led to her dramatic departure.
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