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Guest of Honour Norway – a success story
Feature — Sales record in the bookstore at the fair, full house in Norway's pavilion, huge international media attention and growth in the number of visitors at the fair*. The number of private visitors increased by 9.2 per cent from last year, not least thanks to Norway's program as Guest of Honour - "a crowd-puller" according to the Director of Frankfurter Buchmesse Juergen Boos.
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Guest of Honour Norway – a success story

Feature — Sales record in the bookstore at the fair, full house in Norway's pavilion, huge international media attention and growth in the number of visitors at the fair*. The number of private visitors increased by 9.2 per cent from last year, not least thanks to Norway's program as Guest of Honour - "a crowd-puller" according to the Director of Frankfurter Buchmesse Juergen Boos.

One year ago in Oslo: The German-Norwegian Literary Festival

Latest — The Guest of Honour project was a perfect opportunity to revitalize the contact between Norway and Germany through joint literary and cultural projects. A year ago in Oslo the German-Norwegian literature festival "On the way to Frankfurt" Tysk-norsk litteraturfestival took place. Here is a throwback to a fantastic weekend in April!

Scandinavian feminism

Feature — Today we celebrate the International Women's Day with an article by author Marta Breen about her authorship and feminism.

Frankfurter Buchmesse 2019 Summarized

Latest — We are happy to share some key figures from Norway as a Guest of Honour at this year’s Frankfurter Buchmesse. NORLA’s Guest of Honour project report will be presented in the first quarter of 2020.

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Events
22:00–23:00
Frankfurt am Main
In Norwegian Landscapes. HUNTING HIGH AND LOW

Exhibition — From 14 SEPTEMBER 2019 - 19 JANUARY 2020, the exhibition "In Norwegian Landscapes. HUNTING HIGH AND LOW" can be seen at Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt.

07:00–18:00
Frankfurt am Main
Hannah Ryggen

Exhibition — From 26 SEPTEMBER 2019 - 12 JANUARY 2020 Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating a major monographic exhibition to the powerful, political inspired oeuvre of artist Hannah Ryggen.

07:00–19:00
Frankfurt am Main
House of Norway

Exhibition — House of Norway at Museum Angewandte Kunst (11 OCTOBER 2019 - 26 JANUARY 2020) assembles outstanding examples of Norway’s art and culture, design, craftsmanship, and architecture that represent a creative exploration of a world in transition.

07:00–18:00
Düsseldorf
Edvard Munch Seen by Karl Ove Knausgård

Exhibition — From 12 OCTOBER 2019 to 1 MARCH 2020, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf presents the exhibition "Edvard Munch seen by Karl Ove Knausgård"

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Mannheimer Morgen presents Maja Lunde's novel "Die letzten ihrer Art" (btb Verlag).
https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-seite-1-mm-eindrucksvolle-mahnung-_arid,1544713.html
The bookseller Sabine Abel recommends works by Mona Høvring and Erik Fosnes Hansen in the program "Wir in Bayern" in BR (from 18:30).
https://www.br.de/mediathek/video/wir-in-bayern-25102019-freitagsglueck-buchtipps-von-der-frankfurter-buchmesse-schafskaesestrudel-auf-ratatouille-und-kraeutercreme-av:5d78e8bbe364e90013e0dfb1
SWR2 discusses the question "Guest of Honour Country Norway: How was it and what is left?".
https://www.swr.de/swr2/literatur/Gespraech-Gastland-Norwegen-Wie-war-s,swr2-lesenswert-magazin-20191027-1705-02-gastland-norwegen-wie-war-s-und-was-bleibt-100.html
FOCUS author Anne-Sophie Balzer on the welfare state of Norway and its great writers.
https://www.focus.de/perspektiven/politik-glueckliches-norwegen-was-machst-du-besser_id_11248476.html
Main Post reports on the Buchmesse-Spezial-Reading about "Norway" at Theater am Neunerplatz.
https://www.mainpost.de/regional/wuerzburg/Buchmesse-Spezial-Norwegen-Lesung-im-Theater-am-Neunerplatz;art735,10340645?fbclid=IwAR2Azx6kYXb1XaXpZGj681vs1xxhOZkN0tB_-d_G_GU84ur7twOyon9j4iE
Die Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung on Museion's guest curator of the year 2020: Erling Kagge.
https://www.tageszeitung.it/2019/10/25/gastkurator-erling-kagge/
Leipzinger Volkszeitung reports on Tomas Espedals appearance at UT Connewitz.
https://www.lvz.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Kultur-Regional/Tomas-Espedal-macht-eine-merkwuerdige-Ankuendigung-Meine-letzte-Lesung
Barbara Renno reports in Saarländischer Rundfunk on the new city library of Oslo.
https://www.sr.de/sr/sr2/themen/literatur/20191024_oslo_deichmanske_bibliothek_100.html
ARTE broadcasts a TV feature about a meeting of Maja Lunde and the German captain and climate activist Carola Rackete in Oslo.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/091930-000-A/durch-die-nacht-mit/
Book blogger Ilke presents "11 Norwegian books worth reading" on her video channel "Buchgeschichten".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0gk9ubDQ_U
RTL Hessen reports on the opening ceremony of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
https://www.rtl-hessen.de/beitrag/frankfurt-mette-marit-prinz-haakon-buchmesse-eroeffnung-norwegen
SWR2 reviews Line Madsen Simenstad's "Königin-Maud-Land ist geheim" (Mare Verlag).
https://www.swr.de/swr2/literatur/Buchkritik-Line-Madsen-Simenstad-Koenigin-Maud-Land-ist-geheim,av-o1156072-100.html