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Norwegian Science Fiction
Science fiction literature was established in Norway in the mid-1960s, mainly by Jon Bing and Tor Åge Bringsværd. They dominated the genre, started a society for science fiction fans, and reached relatively high public interest until the late 1970s. Johannes H. Berg Jr. is a noteworthy contributor to Norwegian science fiction literature from the 1970s until his death in 2004. Among contemporary authors is Margret Helgadottir, who writes science fiction in English. Proto-science fiction can be found as far back as the 18th century in Norway. Best known is the novel ''Niels Klim's Underground Travels'' by the playwright Ludvig Holberg. Also, Henrik Wergeland wrote at least one play that can be considered science-fiction-esque: ''De sidste kloge'' ("The Last of the Wise"), set on the planet Terra Nova. The 21st century has seen a new wave of science fiction in Norway, ranging from Øyvind Rimbereid's epic poem Solaris korrigert to Sigbjørn Skåden's Sámi The Sámi ( ; also s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Bing
Jon Bing (30 April 1944 – 14 January 2014) was a Norwegian writer and law professor at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL), and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. Bing was considered a pioneer in international IT and information law. He held honorary doctorates from the University of Stockholm and the University of Copenhagen, and was a Visiting Professor at Kings College, University of London. Bing was part of The Protection of Privacy Committee. From 1979 to 1981 he was head of Norsk Filmråd. Between 1981 and 1982, he was the head of The Council of Europe Committee on Legal Data Processing. Between 1993 and 2000, he headed Norsk kulturråd. Biography Bing grew up in Trondheim, Norway. After graduating with a degree at Trondheim Cathedral School, Bing began studying at the University of Oslo. Bing was awarded his PhD in law in 1982. Together with Tor Åge Bringsværd and other students at the University of Oslo, Jon Bing started the An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tor Åge Bringsværd
Tor Åge Bringsværd (born 16 November 1939 in Skien, Norway) is an author, playwright, editor and translator. He is perhaps best known for his speculative fiction. Together with long-time partner Jon Bing, he is also considered as the first Norwegian author to write science fiction literature. Bringsværd regards himself as an anarchist, which is clearly reflected in some of his works. He is also known for his distinctive style of writing, for example for his seemingly random jumps to narratives or anecdotes with no clear relationship to the main story. Bibliography Novels *Bazar, 1970 *Den som har begge beina på jorda står stille,1974 *Syvsoverskens dystre frokost, 1976 *Pinocchio-papirene, 1978 *Minotauros, 1980 *Ker Shus, 1983 *Gobi. Barndommens måne, 1985 *Gobi. Djengis Khan, 1987 *Uten tittel, 1988 *Gobi. Djevelens skinn og ben, 1989 *Gobi. Min prins, 1994 *Den enøyde, 1996 *Gobi. Baghdad, 1997 *Pudder? Pudder! eller: Sleeping Beauty in the Valley of the Wild, Wild Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margret Helgadottir
Margret Helgadottir is Norwegian-Icelandic, a four times British Fantasy Award-nominated author and anthology editor, and winner of the Starburst's Brave New Words Award. Biography Helgadóttir was born in Ethiopia to Norwegian and Icelandic parents. She has written about her background as Missionary kid and crosscultural child, and how it has influenced her writing, and said: “... the scars and blessings it has given me to be a child who moved lots between cultures whilst trying to develop my own identity. ... Many of my characters struggle with grief and a feeling of being lost, like in The Stars Seem So Far Away.” She holds a Cand.polit. degree in Pedagogy from the University of Oslo. She has worked as teacher, and in several Norwegian ministries and directorates in Oslo, and in the Nordic Council of Ministers in Copenhagen, Denmark. Helgadóttir is a charter member of the ''African Speculative Fiction'' ''Society''. She lives in Oslo, and has lived in Ethiopia, Senegal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niels Klim's Underground Travels
''Niels Klim's Underground Travels'', originally published in Latin as ''Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum'' (1741), is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel written by the Norwegian- Danish author Ludvig Holberg. His only novel, it describes a utopian society from an outsider's point of view, and often pokes fun at diverse cultural and social topics such as morality, science, sexual equality, religion, governments, and philosophy. Plot summary The novel starts with a foreword that ''assures'' that everything in the story is a real account of the title character's exploits in the Underworld. The story is set, according to the book, in the Norwegian harbor town of Bergen in 1664, after Klim returns from Copenhagen, where he has studied philosophy and theology at the University of Copenhagen and graduated magna cum laude. His curiosity drives him to investigate a strange cave in a mountainside above the town, which sends out regular gusts of warm air. He ends up falling down t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg (3 December 1684 – 28 January 1754) was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano-Norwegian dual monarchy. He was influenced by Humanism, the Enlightenment and the Baroque. Holberg is considered the founder of modern Danish and Norwegian literature. He is best known for the comedies he wrote in 1722–1723 for the Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen. Holberg's works about natural and common law were widely read by many Danish law students over two hundred years, from 1736 to 1936. Studies and teaching Holberg was the youngest of six brothers. His father, Christian Nielsen Holberg, died before Ludvig was one year old. He was educated in Copenhagen, and was a teacher at the University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Wergeland
Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland (17 June 1808 – 12 July 1845) was a Norwegian writer, most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright, polemicist, historian, and linguist. He is often described as a leading pioneer in the development of a distinctly Norwegian literary heritage and of modern Norwegian culture. Though Wergeland only lived to be 37, his range of pursuits covered literature, theology, history, contemporary politics, social issues, and science. His views were controversial in his time, and his literary style was variously denounced as subversive. Early life He was the oldest son of Nicolai Wergeland (1780–1848), who had been a member of the constituent assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814. The father was himself pastor of Eidsvold and the poet was thus brought up in the very holy of holies of Norwegian patriotism. Wergeland's younger sister was Camilla Collett and younger brother major general Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland. Henrik Wergeland entered Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Øyvind Rimbereid
Øyvind Rimbereid (born 2 May 1966 in Stavanger) is a Norwegian author and composer of lyric poetry. He has worked as an instructor at ''Skrivekunstakademiet'' in Bergen. Rimbereid holds a cand. philol. degree from the University of Bergen with high marks in Nordic languages and literature. He won the Brage Prize 2008 for his poetry collection ''Herbarium''. Bibliography *''Det har begynt'' – stories (1993) *''Som solen vokser'' – novel (1996) *''Kommende år'' – stories (1998) *''Seine topografiar'' – poetry (2001) *''Trådreiser'' – poetry (2001) *''Solaris korrigert'' – poetry (2004) *''Hvorfor ensomt leve'', essays (2006) *''Herbarium'', poetry (2008) *''Jimmen'', poetry (2011) *''Orgelsjøen'', poetry (2013) *''Lovene'', poetry (2015) *''Lenis plassar. Et dikt'', poetry (2017) Prizes *Sult-prisen 2001 *Den norske Lyrikklubbens pris 2002 *The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (''Kritikerprisen'') 2004, for ''Solaris korrigert'' * T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solaris Korrigert
''Solaris korrigert'' is a Norwegian narrative poem by Øyvind Rimbereid, published in 2004 in a book of poetry bearing the same title. The title can be translated into English as "Solaris Corrected", and is a reference to Stanisław Lem's novel Solaris. The poem is a 35 page narrative about a dystopic future, told in a fictional future language that is a mix of Rimbereid's Stavanger dialect, English, German and old Norse. The poem has won multiple literary awards, and has been adapted into a theatrical performance and an opera. Narrative The poem has been described as a "dramatic monologue" with a lyrical I who is the overseer of a group of robots working on the bottom of the ocean in a future where robots have taken over much human work. The story is set in the year 2480, in "a future society owned, regulated, and controlled by what seems to be a privatized corporation". Language The language in ''Solaris korrigert'' is its most remarkable feature. Rimbereid has created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sámi
The Sámi ( ; also spelled Sami or Saami) are a Finno-Ugric-speaking people inhabiting the region of Sápmi (formerly known as Lapland), which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Murmansk Oblast, Russia, most of the Kola Peninsula in particular. The Sámi have historically been known in English as Lapps or Laplanders, but these terms are regarded as offensive by the Sámi, who prefer the area's name in their own languages, e.g. Northern Sámi . Their traditional languages are the Sámi languages, which are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family. Traditionally, the Sámi have pursued a variety of livelihoods, including coastal fishing, fur trapping, and sheep herding. Their best-known means of livelihood is semi-nomadic reindeer herding. about 10% of the Sámi were connected to reindeer herding, which provides them with meat, fur, and transportation; around 2,800 Sámi people were actively involved in reindeer her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fugl (novel)
''Fugl'' (in English: "Bird") is a 2019 Norwegian science fiction novel by Sigbjørn Skåden Sigbjørn Skåden (born 8 July 1976) is a Sámi and Norwegian poet and novelist. Career Skåden published five books on the Sami publishing house Skániid Girjie; the poetry collections ''Skuovvadeddjiid gonagas'' (2004), ''Skomakernes konge'' ( ..., and is the first science fiction novel written by a Sámi author. ''Fugl'' tells the story of a small human colony on a distant planet where speech cannot be heard. ''Fugl'' is Skåden's first novel written in Norwegian, and has been interpreted as an allegory of the Sámi peoples' loss of their language due to forced assimilation and Norwegianization. ''Fugl'' was translated to French by Marina Heide as ''Oiseau'' in 2021. Plot ''Fugl'' is a short, lyrical novel set in a future where a small colony of humans has settled on a distant planet they call "Sedes" or "Heim", which means home. The colony lives in a dome with limited resource ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fafnir (journal)
''Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research'' is a peer-reviewed online academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ... published by Suomen science fiction - ja fantasiatutkimuksen seura ry (English: Finnish Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research).Scifin ja fantasian tutkijoille yhdistys . Helsingin Sanomat. Accessed 28 October 2014. The main language of the journal is English, but it also accepts submissions in the Nordic languages. Content ranges from research articles to short overviews, essays, interviews, opinion pieces, conference reports, and aca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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