Tron Øgrim
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Tron Øgrim, 2006
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Tron Øgrim 27 June 1947 Oslo, Norway |
| Died | 23 May 2007 (aged 59) Oslo |
| Other names | Eirik Austey |
| Occupation | journalist, author |
| Notable credit(s) | Co-founder of Workers' Communist Party, outspoken and respected Norwegian radical cultural figure |
| Spouse(s) | Jorunn Gulbrandsen (marriage lasted from 1969 to 1998) |
| Children | three daughters, among whom is journalist and Red politician Liv Gulbrandsen |
| Relatives | The two rappers of Gatas Parlament are his nephews |
| Family | father Otto Øgrim, mother Marit Odlaug Eggen |
| Website | http://www.steinen.net |
Tron Øgrim (Norwegian pronunciation: [tɾun øɡɾim]) (27 June 1947 – 23 May 2007) was a Norwegian journalist, author and politician. He was active in Socialist Youth Union (later Red Youth) from 1965 to 1973, and a central figure in the Workers' Communist Party from 1973 to 1984. In addition to being a politician, Øgrim was an author of political works and several science fiction novels. He was notable for communicating in a non-standard eastern Oslo dialect, even where he might have been expected to use standardized Bokmål.
Born in Oslo, Norway, Øgrim was one of the most influential people in Norway's Marxist-Leninist movement in the sixties and seventies. He was one of the founders of the Workers' Communist Party, a party that strongly advocated the Chinese branch of communism. Tron was also central in founding the newspaper Klassekampen and in the publishing house Oktober.
Becoming a journalist after leaving politics in the eighties, Øgrim had a technology column in the Norwegian edition of PC World. He was known for his distinct writing style, where he rejected standard written Norwegian and, instead, wrote as he spoke, in a working class dialect. He also wrote science fiction novels under the pseudonym Eirik Austey.
Tron Øgrim was an early proponent of the Internet in Norway, frequently traveling around the country giving lectures. In 1995, he argued for the Norwegian parliament to establish an Internet presence, claiming: "Without politicians online, there is no such thing as a democratic IT policy." Øgrim was also a supporter of the open-source movement. In his book Kvikksølv, he described Linux as "applied communism". He was a mainstay contributor of the Internet newsgroup Leftist Trainspotters, where he made thousands of posts, many relating to the political developments in Nepal.
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