Abid Raja
Abid Q. Raja (1975–) is a lawyer, a social thinker, a Liberal Party politician and the Cultural Minister under the Erna Solberg government. He was the founder of the cross cultural Dialogue Meetings and the think tank Minotenk. In 2010 he was awarded the Fritt Ord (Free speech) Prize. He has written several books, and his memoir My Fault was the bestselling book in Norway in 2020 and awarded Raja the Bookseller Prize.