Acclaimed Norwegian author Dag Solstad seemed nearly a reluctant jubilant as a two-day-long celebration of his 70th birthday on Saturday took place in his...
Fourteen years after he published the first of his wildly successful crime novels in Norway, Jo Nesbø suddenly seems all the rage in the US. It makes one wonder what took the Americans so long to dig into Nesbø's books and get scared along with the rest of his millions of fans.
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen remains one of the Norway's best-known literary figures with a large export market for his works. A huge project that...
Now it's Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's turn to get some public attention, but the Norwegian government's decision to spend millions celebrating an author whose works now...