Vidar Nilsen
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Vidar Nilsen is a Hollywood writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

. He is known as Mr. Norway in the worldwide science-fiction fan community.

Biography

Nilsen was born in 1970 in a yellow Mercedes Benz on the Fetsund Bru outside of Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. He started out writing articles for Norwegian magazines in his teens, then progressed to novel
Novel
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s and television
Television
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 writing in his mid twenties. Vidar Nilsen, 37, died September 28, 2008 in Akron, Ohio
Akron, Ohio
Akron , is the fifth largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110. The Akron Metropolitan...

 survived by his wife Nadine and many special friends.

Some of his works include Project-SI and StarForce.

Nilsen is the brain behind "Webiction" a fictional, groundbreaking and compelling way of storytelling that will pave its way through the Internet
Internet
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in the years to come, delivering fiction of all sorts through its innovative news format. Webiction is slated for a bright future and a billion dollar industry within the next few years and it is predicted to leave the book industry in the shadows at its peak.

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