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{{Short description|Norwegian publisher and writer}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2021}}[[File:Anders Heger.jpg|thumb|Anders Heger (2011)]]'''Anders Heger''' (born 10 July 1956) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] publisher and writer, and is one of the six children of [[Wanda Hjort Heger]] and Bjørn Heger.

In 1982, Heger started ''[[Radio Nova (Norway)|Radio Nova]]'', the first student radio in Norway. In 1985, he wrote a book about the juridical process against the Norwegian writer [[Agnar Mykle]], and in 1999 wrote ''Et diktet liv'', a biography about Agnar Mykle, which received the [[Brage Prize]] (comparable in Norway to a Pulitzer Prize). Heger's grandfather, [[Johan Bernhard Hjort]], was Mykle's defense attorney. 

Heger became director of the Norwegian publishing company [[J.W. Cappelens Forlag|Cappelen]] (owned by the Swedish mediahouse [[Bonnier Group|Bonnier]]) in 1991. Heger is described in the media as "the most powerful man in the bookpublishing industry in Norway".{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}}

His interests include [[cross-country skiing]].

== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070103122015/http://www.aheger.com/ Anders Heger: Skrivemaskin]
*[http://www.nrk.no/litteratur/forfattere/659362.html Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and Heger]

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