Aslak Sira Myhre is a Norwegian culture administrator. He currently is director of the Oslo House of Literature. In May 2014 he was appointed by the government to the position as director of the National Library of Norway, to be effective fall of 2014. Myhre has been a leftwing politician, and is former party leader of Red Electoral Alliance. Myhre's parents were both active on the political left and his father Eldar Myhre is a known trade union chairman at Aker Kv�rner. Aslak was very active in student demonstrations at the University of Bergen during the 1990s and sat on the university board in 1996. He was the party leader of Red Electoral Alliance between 1997 and 2003, and sat in the city council in his home city Stavanger between 1999 and 2003. He was the top candidate for Storting for Rogaland in the 1997 election and Oslo in the 2001 election, but his party failed to win any seats. Leaving national politics, he became an executive of !Les, an association to stimulate children and youth to read more. Myhre has also worked as a football journalist for both the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and Klassekampen. [More at Wikipedia]

May 28th, 1973 in Stavanger (Age 51)