Fredrik Skavlan

Fredrik Skavlan born 2 September 1966 is a Norwegian journalist cartoonist and TV personality From 1998 to 2007 he hosted Norways most popular talk show Først sist First Last which attracted more than one million viewers every Friday evening He won the 1999 Norwegian Television Award for best host After taking a break from the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK he was persuaded to host his own show for Swedens SVT in the spring of 2009 Skavlan Skavlan won the Swedish Television Award for Best Television Host the first Norwegian to do so In the autumn of 2009 the program started broadcasting on both NRK and SVT Since autumn 2013 the show is also broadcast on the Danish secondary channel DR2 Danish criticism has been absent so far Skavlan originally worked as a journalist and cartoonist for several Norwegian newspapers including Morgenbladet and Dagbladet He has also illustrated several books including Unni Lindells childrens book Nifse Nella og nattskolen Spooky Stella and the Night School 2008