Feature — Bjørnson wrote stories, novels, plays, articles, speeches and letters. Best remembered today are probably his poems, that many composers have written tunes to. Ja, vi elsker dette landet («Yes, We Love This Country») is the most famous of all. This poem is the history of Norway in eight verses, and it is Norway’s national anthem.

Portrait — Olav H. Hauge (Olav Håkonson Hauge), poet and fruit farmer, who gradually emerged as one of the most significant Norwegian poets of the 20th century. He has been translated into more than twenty languages, and was himself an important translator of poetry from English, German and French.

Noteworthy — In the Hauge Center in Ulvik, you can learn about the life and works of Olav H. Hauge, but you can also discover many forms of poetry in new and exciting ways.

Feature — For her powerful portrayals of life in the Middle Ages Sigrid Undset was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. In Fortellingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis («The Story about Viga-Ljot and Vigdis»)the reader is transported back to the 11th century. The German publishing house Hoffmann und Campe Verlag have chosen to publish a new translation of this novel, about the very dramatic relationship between the main characters, this autumn (2019).

Noteworthy — The new Munchmuseet will open in Spring 2020 in Bjørvika on Oslo’s waterfront. The brand new building, designed by Estudio Herreros, will house the more than 28,000 works that Edvard Munch bequeathed to the City of Oslo.

Noteworthy — The Garborg Center is a literary science museum about the author couple Arne and Hulda Garborg. The center is known for innovatively presenting their ideas and literature, and the exhibition sparks an interest to investigate further and encourage visitors to take on creative work.

Feature — In a unique project at the Centre for Ibsen Studies at the University of Oslo, an interdisciplinary team of eight translators met regularly over ten years to translate the prose plays of Ibsen directly into Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Egyptian, Hindi, Japanese and Farsi.

Noteworthy — The Perspektivet Museum is a cultural history museum in Tromsø, located in a beautiful old trading house, where the Norwegian writer Cora Sandel once lived.

Noteworthy — In the small town of Grimstad in southern Norway you can visit the houses of two of Norway's most famous poets: Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun.

Feature — Norwegian fairy tales indisputably belong among the classical European fairy and folk tales. When the first Norwegian collections were being published, Jakob Grimm, the older of the two famous Grimm brothers, declared that he felt the tales from Norway ranked well above most others.

Portrait — What might a typical day in the life of the singel parent and Nobel laureate in Literature Sigrid Undset in the 1920s have looked like? We'll tell you ...