The Cappelen Prize () is a Norwegian

literary award A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award c ...

that was established in 1979 by J.W. Cappelens Forlag, one of the oldest publishing houses of Norway, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publishing house. It has not been awarded after J.W. Cappelens Forlag merged with N. W. Damm & Søn to Cappelen Damm in 2007.

Laureates

*1979 – Thorbjørn Egner *1980 – Odd Eidem *1981 – Hans Normann Dahl and Vivian Zahl Olsen *1982 –

Bjørg Vik Bjørg Vik (11 September 1935 – 7 January 2018) was a Norwegian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and journalist. Biography Bjørg Turid Vik was born in Oslo, Norway. Her parents were Sverre Thorbjørn Johansen (1903–1958) and Anna ...

and Jahn Otto Johansen *1983 – Richard Herrmann, Otto Øgrim, Helmut Ormestad and Kåre Lunde *1984 – Lars Saabye Christensen, Ove Røsbak, Rune Belsvik and Karin Sveen *1985 – Kolbein Falkeid and Arvid Hanssen *1986 – Inger Margrethe Gaarder and Fredrik Skagen *1987 – Roy Jacobsen and Håvard Rem *1988 – Ingvar Ambjørnsen *1989 – Vigdis Hjorth *1990 – Kjell Arild Pollestad and Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld *1991 – Paal-Helge Haugen *1992 – Axel Jensen *1993 –

Erik Bye Erik Erikssønn Bye (March 1, 1926 – October 13, 2004) was a versatile Norwegian-American journalist, artist, author, film actor, folk singer and radio and television personality. He was one of the 20th century's most well-known and popular r ...

and Tor Bomann-Larsen *1994 – ''No award'' *1995 – ''No award'' *1996 – Gert Nygårdshaug *1997 – Erlend Loe *1998 – ''No award'' *1999 – Georg Johannesen *2000 –

Gro Dahle Gro Dahle (born 15 May 1962) is a Norwegian poet and writer. Early life Dahle was born in Oslo, and is the daughter of businessman Øystein Dahle. She grew up in Tønsberg, Aruba and New Jersey. She began studying psychology and English lite ...

*2001 –

Anne Holt Anne Holt (born 16 November 1958) is a Norwegian author, lawyer and former Minister of Justice and the Police (Norway), Minister of Justice. Early life She was born in Larvik, grew up in Lillestrøm and Tromsø, and moved to Oslo in 1978. Holt g ...

*2002 –

Jan Jakob Tønseth Jan Jakob Tønseth (1 September 1947 – 12 October 2018) was a Norwegian author, poet and translator. Tønseth debuted as a poet with the poetry collection ''Kimærer'' in 1971, when he was only 24 years of age. He achieved broad recognition as ...

*2003 – Karin Fossum *2004 – Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Ingeborg Arvola, Ørnulf Hodne, Anne-Lise Gjerdrum *2005 – ''No award'' *2006 – Erik Fosnes Hansen and Torbjørn Færøvik *2007 – ''Discontinued''.

References

{{Reflist Norwegian literary awards Awards established in 1979 Awards disestablished in 2007 1979 establishments in Norway 2007 disestablishments in Norway