Norsk // 14/05/2009 //

On 20 May, the largest arts festival in the Nordic countries opens in Bergen. Politicians are encouraged to let themselves be inspired.

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Norsk // 25/03/2009 //

Applicants form all over the world are encouraged to apply for the International Ibsen Scholarships. Check if you or your organisation could be granted any of the 1,000,000 NOK award.

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Norsk // 06/07/2008 //

Norwegian ship design is challenging established shipping concepts. Innovative designers have developed a new bow shape that makes vessels safer, as well as reducing their impact on the environment.

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Norsk // 07/10/2007 //

“Detour” demonstrates Norwegian landscapes in combination with various motoring routes and modern design and architecture through brass-rimmed display case from the 1900s.

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Norsk // 16/08/2007 //

In April the Iranian director Akbar Zanjanpur is set to stage the play ”An Enemy of the People” by the Norwegian playwriter Henrik Ibsen. In 2006 it will be one hundred years since the death of Ibsen, and this is celebrated all over the world.

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Norsk // 08/03/2009 //

In 2009, it is 150 years since the birth of the Norwegian Nobel winning author Knut Hamsun. The anniversary was launched with a street theatre performance that offered hundreds of passers-by a taste of Hamsun’s Oslo novel Hunger.

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Norsk // 10/10/2007 //

Literature and the people who love is have been granted a brand new meeting place. In late September Norway ’s first and Europe’s largest House of Literature was launched in Oslo .

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Norsk // 20/09/2007 //

When Norway ’s Magnus Carlsen was nine years old, he trounced his father at chess. Seven years later, the 16-year-old chess talent is playing against the heavyweights of the chess world.

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