A royal visit for Reading Week: Crown Princess Mette-Marit visits Oslo school
Crown Princess Mette-Marit has visited Gamlebyen School in Oslo as part of this year’s Literature Festival. School reading week a royal draw Students at Gamlebyen…
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Petition by 29 authors and Nobel Literature prize winners appeals for truth about the war in Ukraine
29 authors, among them several Nobel Literature Prize winners, have signed a petition urging all Russian speakers to spread truth, and not lies or propaganda,…
Famous authors, activists and Nobel Prize winners call for an end to Ukraine war
Over 1000 authors, freedom of speech activists, and several Nobel laureates have signed a joint appeal urging an end to the war in Ukraine. Initiated…
Nobel Literature Prize winner to visit Lillehammer next May
The Norwegian Literature Festival secures the attendance of 2021 Nobel Literature Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah next May. Just months after winning the prestigious 2021 Nobel Prize…
Abid Raja receives Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for book “My Guilt”
Liberal Party politician and former Minister of Culture Abid Raja (V) has received the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize (Bokhandlerprisen) 2021 for the book “Min skyld: En…
Oslo library Deichman Bjørvika awarded with architecture prize
The architects behind the new main library in Oslo, Deichman Bjørvika, have been awarded the Oslo City Architects Prize for 2021. Oslo mayor Marianne Borgen…
A short introduction to the 2021 Nobel Literature Prize winner: Refugee-turned-novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
Author Abdulrazak Gurnah (72) received this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. The former refugee writes, among other things, about colonialism and the fate of refugees….
This author wrote a book about her experience of moving to Norway
Lorelou Desjardins, author of “A Frog in the Fjord – One Year in Norway,” ended up writing the book she wished she could have read…
Abdulrazak Gurnah receives the Nobel Prize in Literature
Author Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar. He arrived in England as a refugee…
Maud Angelica Behn is set to publish her first book
18-year-old Maud Angelica Behn, daughter of the Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise, will make her debut as a poet and illustrator when she publishes the book…
Norwegian author Jan Grue receives the Per Olov Enquist Prize
Norwegian author Jan Grue has been awarded the Swedish Per Olov Enquist Prize for 2020. Jan Grue shows how a biographical work can take advantage…
Guide to the classics: the Icelandic saga
The author of this article is Margaret Clunies Ross, Emeritus Professor of English Language and Early English Literature at the University of Sydney. Iceland has…
“Hamlet”: a play that speaks to pandemics past and present
The author of this article is Elizabeth Schafer, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, at the Royal Holloway University of London. I went to the…
Roald Dahl’s wonderful Wales: How growing up Welsh molded the Anglo-Norwegian writer
This article was written by Damian Walford Davies, Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University. It was Welsh coal that brought Roald Dahl into the…
How one author decided to create a kid’s book set on stunning Svalbard
Author of the kid’s “Lindie Lou Adventure Series”, Jeanne Bender, decided to set one of her beloved books on Svalbard – out of awe at…
The Academy of Science and Letters
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Have you ever heard about the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters? In this article, I want to…
Jon Fosse is among the Nobel favourites again
Jon Fosse is among the Nobel favourites again Samlaget has a press release ready this year if Jon Fosse, 58, is to receive the Nobel…
Norwegian Literature Festivals
Norwegian Literature Festivals There are more than 50 literature festivals that take place throughout Norway. Some cover the entire field of literature, while others have…
Royal couple receives 80th birthday gift of a century
Royal couple receives 80th birthday gift of a century of future literature to be unwrapped in 2114 For their 80th birthdays, the City of Oslo…
Crown Princess Mette-Marit on literature train ride
Literature train ride to Sørlandet For the fourth time, Crown Princess Mette-Marit goes on a journey with the literature train. This time the trip goes…
