Rikard Spets

Rikard Spets
Member of the Storting
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 October 2025
ConstituencySør-Trøndelag
Personal details
BornMarch 19, 1971 (1971-03-19) (age 55)
Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag
PartyProgress
OccupationAuthor, Politician

Rikard Spets (born March 19, 1971, in Trondheim) is a Norwegian writer and politician from Sandefjord Municipality. He debuted in 2011 with the crime novel Allahs tårer.

He got elected to the Storting for the Progress Party in 2025.

Spets graduated in marketing and worked as a sales and marketing until in 2007 he resigned to pursue his dream of becoming a writer.

References

  1. ↑ Anders Mehlum Hasle."- Ekstra moro med lokal forfatter!" – Sandefjords Blad
  2. 1 2 "Rikard Spets" Archived January 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine – Juritzen Forlag
  3. ↑ "Biografi: Spets, Rikard". Stortinget (in Norwegian). November 9, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2025.