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The Bjørnson Prize 2022 goes to Niviaq Korneliussen
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 to...
World Expression Forum Establishing in Lillehammer
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...
Nobel Prize winner coming to Lillehammer
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...
The complete program for the mini festival on the Frankfurter Buchmesse
Dag Solstad in Germany, Nature and Literature and in the mind of a writer. These are the names of four of 15 program posts in total...
The Nowegian Festival of Literature on the Frankfurt book fair October 19th 2019
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...
Experimental telepresence production in 2008
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 Atwood was...