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Author Nesbø wins ‘Peer Gynt’ prize

Jo Nesbø, who's enjoyed huge international success for his crime novels, was named this year's 'Peer Gynt' by the Members of Parliament who vote...

‘Halvbroren’ set new NRK record

More than a million Norwegians tuned in Sunday evening to the much-hyped premiere of the new television series based on Lar Saabye Christensen's epic...

Author wins over Afghan subject

Åsne Seierstad, the Norwegian author who enjoyed international success with her book about a bookseller in Kabul, has finally won a long drawn-out lawsuit...

Author wins reprieve

Norwegian author Åsne Seierstad, whose book about a bookseller in Kabul ended up selling well worldwide, says she's relieved after winning her latest round...

Scorsese wants to film in Norway

Celebrity film director Martin Scorsese says he wants to film Jo Nesbø's entire crime novel Snømannen (The Snowman) in Norway if he can, not...

Literature House seeks funding

Oslo's popular Litteraturhuset (Literature House) is looking for new funding to replace what it now gets from the Fritt Ord foundation, which promotes the...

Ullmann promotes new novel

Norwegian author Linn Ullmann has been busy promoting her new novel in Scandinavian media lately, and landed a spot on the popular talk-show Skavlan...

Nesbø book to be Scorsese film

The good times just keep rolling for Norwegian author Jo Nesbø, whose crime novels keep ringing up more sales internationally. Now his seventh book...

Knausgård draws mixed reviews

Author Karl Ove Knausgård's latest and last volume in a series of six highly personal novels about his own life hit the bookstores this...

Jo Nesbø scores again, on screen

Norwegian author Jo Nesbø had already been having a fabulous year, judging from the latest international success of his crime novel Snømannen (The Snowman),...
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