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Particularly in a time of crippling financial hardship for Norwegians it is galling for literary artists to demand tax dollars.

Luke Lyman on Norwegian literature, Italy’s search for museum directors & a second Mona Lisa.

The Nobel laureate is a master of the short novel – but none of them rivals Septology, an 800-page, single-sentence masterpiece

The Nobel prize-winning novelist on the wonders of the Louvre, a powerful film adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s memoir and being mesmerised by Tacita Dean

A Norwegian writer, Jon Fosse, has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature. Though little-known outside his home country, he is celebrated in literary circles.

A Norwegian writer, Jon Fosse, has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature. Though little-known outside his home country, he is celebrated in literary circles.

His writing is spare and existential, often focusing on the interior lives of rather solitary characters.

The award-winning short story writer talks about her boycott of the world’s biggest marketplace, her love of languages and living with Paul Auster in Paris

Annie Bjornstad, Eilif Skodvin, and Steven Van Zandt are the creative minds behind the Norwegian crime comedy-drama series Lilyhammer. Simen Alsvik helmed the show, and Agnete Thailand and Lasse Hallberg were responsible for producing it. On January 25, 2012, the series debuted on NRK, and on February 6, 2012, all episodes were made available on […]

If Haruki Murakami wins, I will eat one of his fancy T-shirts.