Kristoffer Aamot


Kristoffer Aamot was a Norwegian journalist, magazine editor, politician and cinema administrator. As a young journalist he was sentenced to one year imprisonment for his writings in the newspaper Klassekampen.. He was a member of the Oslo City Council from 1917 to 1937. He was a director of Oslo Kinematografer from 1934 to 1955, except for the war years. A film award was named after him.
He was also the writer of the Norwegian comic strip Skomakker Bekk of Tvillingene Hans, which was drawn by Jan Lunde.