The Bjørnson Prize 2022 is awarded to Greenlandic author Niviaq Korneliussen for her contribution to highlighting a major social problem through fiction. In Bjørnson’s spirit, she writes accessible and popular in a realistic tradition that not least reaches out...
World Expression Forum (WEXFO) is an international forum for the advancement of freedom of expression. It will take place annually in Lillehammer, in connection with the Norwegian Festival of Literature in May. The festival is a proud partner of WEXFO and will be the...
The 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah, will be among the authors coming to the Norwegian Festival of Literature. The festival will take place from May 30th to June 5th, 2022. Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize “for his...
No sooner have we closed the doors on the largest and one of the most successful years of the Norwegian Festival of Literature in Lillehammer, than the details for the festival’s programme in Frankfurt are released. This special edition of the Norwegian Festival of...
Under The Norwegian Festival of Literature in 2008 you could experience an experimental telepresence production. “On stage” you could see Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer, beeing interviewed by Simen Ekern, opinion journalist in Dagbladet, but in reality...
