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Sigmund Strømme
Sigmund Strømme (8 April 1923 – 26 March 2008) was a Norwegian literary scholar and publisher. Biography Strømme was born in Vardø in Finnmark, Norway. He was born to parish priest Sigvard Arnoldus Strømme and Helga Myhre, and was married to schoolteacher Inger-Johanne Hafsahl Karset. Strømme became cand.philol. in 1949. From 1955 he was assigned with the publishing house J. W. Cappelens Forlag, first as editor, from 1973 to 1987 as managing director (jointly with Jan Wiese, and then as chairman of the board from 1987 to 1997. Strømme was board member of the Norwegian Publishers' Association, a member of the Norwegian Language Council ('' Norsk språkråd''), board member of The Norwegian Book Club (''Den norske Bokklubbenn'') and board member of Nationaltheatret. He received the Ossietzky Award in 2001. He died in Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Os ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vardø (town)
(Norwegian language, Norwegian; ), , or is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town and the administrative centre of Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The town is located on the island of Vardøya in the Barents Sea, just off the coast of the large Varanger Peninsula. The town has a population (2023) of 1,727 which gives the town a population density of . Vardø is the easternmost town in Norway (and in all the Nordic countries), located at 31°E, which is east of Saint Petersburg, Kyiv, and Istanbul. The eastern part of Finnmark is in the same time zone as the rest of the country, but it is more than an hour at odds with daylight hours. The largest industry in the town is fishing and fish processing. There is a good port in Vardø, and another port in nearby Svartnes, on the mainland. The town is connected to the mainland by the undersea Vardø Tunnel which is part of European route E75. Vardø Airport, Svartnes is located at the other end of the tunnel on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022, and the metropolitan area had an estimated population of in 2021. During the Viking Age, the area was part of Viken. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in 1040 under the name Ánslo, and established as a ''kaupstad'' or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada. The city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around the year 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king. It became a municipality ('' formannskapsdistrikt'') on 1 January 1838. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ossietzky Award
The Ossietzky Award () is a prize awarded by the Norwegian chapter of P.E.N., for extraordinary contributions to freedom of speech. The prize is named after writer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Carl von Ossietzky. Recipients * Aziz Nesin (1993) * Axel Jensen (1994) * Johanna Schwarz (1995) * Koigi wa Wamwere (1996) * Haakon Børde (1997) * Ketil Lund (1998) * Wera Sæther (1999) * Britt Karin Larsen (2000) * Sigmund Strømme (2001) * Elisabeth Eide (2002) * Stavanger Municipality (2003) * Aage Storm Borchgrevink (2004) * Fakhra Salimi (2005) * Ebba Haslund (2006) * Democratic Voice of Burma (2007) * Francis Sejersted and Chungdak Koren (2008) * Mohammed Omer (journalist), Mohammed Omer (2009) * Mansour Koushan (2010) * Mohammad Mostafaei (2011) * Deeyah Khan (2012) * Sidsel Mørck (2013) * Sidsel Wold (2014) * Irina Scherbakowa (2014) * Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen (2015) * Edward Snowden (2016) * Tormod Heier (2017) *Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury (2018) * :no:Afshin_Ismaeli, Afshin I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnmark
Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea (Atlantic Ocean) to the northwest, and the Barents Sea (Arctic Ocean) to the north and northeast. The county was formerly known as ''Finmarkens amt'' or ''Vardøhus amt''. Since 2002, it has had two official names: Finnmark (Norwegian language, Norwegian) and Finnmárku (Northern Sami language, Northern Sami). It is part of the Sápmi region, which spans four countries, as well as the Barents Region, and is Norway's second-largest and least populous county. Situated at the northernmost part of continental Europe, where the Norwegian coastline swings eastward, Finnmark is an area "where East meets West" in culture as well as in nature and geography. Vardø Municipality, Norway's easternmost municipality, is farther east than Saint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Wiese
Jan Wiese (4 March 1928 – 5 July 2014) was a Norwegian publisher and novelist. Wiese was hired as chief financial officer in Cappelens Forlag in 1964, became assisting director in 1965 and chief executive officer (joint with Sigmund Strømme) from 1973 to 1988. He chaired the Norwegian Publishers' Association from 1975 to 1978. However, he became best known when he in 1990, as a retiree, published the novel ''Kvinnen som kledde seg naken for sin elskede''. The novel became a commercial success and was translated to several languages. He was married and resided in Bærum, later in Skjetten. He was the brother of the actor and radio broadcaster Claus Wiese Claus Wiese (March 1, 1924 – September 7, 1987) was a Norwegian actor and American-based radio broadcaster. Wiese was born in Lillestrøm. He graduated from the Oslo Cathedral School in 1944 and worked as an actor with the Oslo New Theater ..., and the father of Andreas Wiese and Claus Wiese. References 1928 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Store Norske Leksikon
The ''Great Norwegian Encyclopedia'' (, abbreviated ''SNL'') is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia. It has several subdivisions, including the Norsk biografisk leksikon. The online encyclopedia is among the most-read Norwegian published sites, with up to 3.5 million unique visitors per month. Paper editions (1978–2007) The ''SNL'' was created in 1978, when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget. Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of Aschehoug and Gyldendal, Norway's two largest, had published ' and ', respectively. The respective first editions were published in 1906–1913 (Aschehoug) and 1933–1934 (Gyldendal). The slump in sales of paper-based encyclopedias around the turn of the 21st century hit Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of the paper encyclopedia was secured by a grant of ten million Norwegian kroner from the foundation Fritt Ord in 2003. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norsk Biografisk Leksikon
is the largest Norwegian biographical encyclopedia. It is part of the '' Great Norwegian Encyclopedia''. Origin The first print edition (NBL1) was issued between 1923 and 1983; it included 19 volumes and 5,100 articles. Kunnskapsforlaget took over the rights to NBL1 from Aschehoug in 1995, and work began on a second print edition (NBL2) in 1998. The project had economic support from the Fritt Ord Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, and NBL2 was launched in the years 1999–2005, including 10 volumes and around 5,700 articles. Online access In 2009 an Internet The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks ... edition, with free access, was released by together with the general-purpose . The electronic edition features additional biographies, and updates about dates of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knut Helle
Knut Helle (19 December 1930 – 27 June 2015) was a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Bergen from 1973 to 2000, he specialized in the late medieval history of Norway. He has contributed to several large works. Early life, education and marriage He was born in Larvik as the son of school inspector Hermann Olai Helle (1893–1973) and teacher Berta Marie Malm (1906–1991). He was the older brother of politician Ingvar Lars Helle. The family moved to Hetland when Knut Helle was seventeen years old. He took the examen artium in Stavanger in 1949, and a teacher's education in Kristiansand in 1952. He studied philology in Oslo and Bergen, and graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1957. His paper ''Omkring Bǫglungasǫgur'', on the Bagler sagas, was printed in 1959. In December 1957 he married Karen Blauuw, who would later become a professor. Helle's marriage to Blauuw was dissolved in 1985. In October 1987 Helle married museum director and professor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Publishers' Association
The Norwegian Publishers' Association () is a publishing house association in Norway. It was established in 1895 by William Martin Nygaard as a sub-group of the Norwegian Booksellers Association. The two separated in 1956. Its current chair is Tom Harald Jenssen, and managing director is Kristenn Einarsson Kristenn Einarsson (born 16 June 1950) is an Icelandic-Norwegian publisher. He was born in Reykjavík, and graduated in economics in 1974. He became the chief executive of Den norske Bokklubben in 1991, and chief executive of Kunnskapsforlaget in .... References External links The Norwegian Publishers Association * Organizations established in 1895 1895 establishments in Norway Organisations based in Oslo Norwaco {{Norway-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norsk Språkråd
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *Norwegian language, including the two official written forms: **Bokmål, literally "book language", used by 85–90% of the population of Norway **Nynorsk, literally "New Norwegian", used by 10–15% of the population of Norway *Norwegian Sea Norwegian or may also refer to: Norwegian *Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline, trading as Norwegian **Norwegian Long Haul, a defunct subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, flying long-haul flights *Norwegian Air Lines, a former airline, merged with Scandinavian Airlines in 1951 *Norwegian coupling, used for narrow-gauge railways *Norwegian Cruise Line, a cruise line *Norwegian Elkhound, a canine breed. * Norwegian Forest cat, a domestic feline breed *Norwegian Red, a breed of dairy cattle *Norwegian Township, Pennsylvania, USA Norsk * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationaltheatret
The National Theatre in Oslo () is one of Norway's largest and most prominent venues for performance of dramatic arts. History The theatre had its first performance on 1 September 1899 but can trace its origins to Christiania Theatre, which was founded in 1829. There were three official opening performances, on subsequent days in September: first, selected pieces by Ludvig Holberg, then '' An Enemy of the People'' by Henrik Ibsen, and on the third day '' Sigurd Jorsalfar'' by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. National Theatre was founded as a private institution and weathered several financial crises until 1929, when the Norwegian government started providing modest support. A number of famous Norwegians have served as artistic directors for the theatre, but Vilhelm Krag who took over in 1911, is credited as having brought the theatre into its "golden age". The theatre is often considered the home for Ibsen's plays, and most of his works have been performed here. Notable is also the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
