He's the Norwegian author who did well with his first book, became a celebrity and married a princess, but then never quite achieved the...

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...

Norwegian author Linn Ullmann, who grew up with film thanks to famous parents in the business, told reporters this week she was "honored" to...

Author Karl Ove Knausgård has been a media darling in Norway since his series of novels hit the market last year. Rarely have any...

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...

Norwegian author Knut Hamsun remains a controversial figure, decades after his death. Now some old love letters he wrote to a young woman more...

A controversial attempt to commemorate one of Norway's literary giants has run into a new round of trouble, just as the climax of the...

A former Norwegian Justice Minister who's also a best-selling author thinks it's more difficult to be either gay or Muslim in Norway than it...