Leif B Lillegaard

Leif B. Lillegaard (1 May 1918, Sandnessjøen – 24 April 1994) was a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor, radio reporter and novelist.

He was editor for the newspaper Harstad Tidende, a journalist for the newspaper Morgenbladet, and a freelance radio reporter for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. He made his literary debut in 1963, with a book on the 1943 Filipstad explosion. He wrote more than one hundred books, both fiction and non-fiction, and was awarded the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize in 1981 for the story Mor.