Hege Nerland

Hege Nerland (27 October 1966 – 12 March 2007) was a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party.

In 2003 she helped found the local party chapter in her native Hemsedal.^[1] She worked with organic farming there, and had organizational experience from the Norwegian Farmers and Smallholders Union and Via Campesina.^[2] She was elected to the municipality council the same year, and became deputy mayor of Hemsedal. Following the Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005, she served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Buskerud. In November 2006, however, she had to relinquish her political positions due to illness.^[3] She died four months later.

References

• "Hege Nerland" (in Norwegian). Stortinget.no.