Literature

Brooklyn Book Festival presents readings from "I Curse the River of Time" by Per Petterson on Sept 12th. With his trademark quietude without the violence, you get unfiltered Petterson. Petterson also reads at Barnes & Noble Union Square on Sept 14th. Read more

An evening of Norwegian Drama – Women and Entrapment: Flight or Surrender. Read more

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art welcomes the Nordic delegation to the MoCCA Festival that will take place over April 10-11, 2010. The annual two-day event attracts thousands of comic art lovers and creators from around the globe to celebrate the world's most popular art form in the heart of New York City. Related events will take place throughtout New York from April 7. Read more

The PEN World Voices Festival - in collaboration with The New York Review of Books and Fritt Ord Freedom of Expression Foundation of Norway - presents this discussion on Global Warming and the future of humanity at The Met in New York on April 29th. Read more

Jo Nesbø – a Norwegian musician, economist and writer – is about to release his third book, called “The Devil’s Star”, in America in March. Read more

Novelist Siri Hustvedt celebrates the publication of her new book "The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves" with a discussion together with neuroscientist Hans Breiter at the Rubin Museum of Art, Friday March 5th, 2010, at 7pm. Read more

Each year the PEN World Voices Festival strives to foster international understanding and promote literary culture by bringing more than fifty authors of distinction and promise from around the world together with a stellar list of their U.S. counterparts for six days of conversations, readings, performances—and, of course, the famous PEN Cabaret. Read more

Jo Nesbø – a Norwegian musician, economist and writer – is about to release his third book, called “The Devil’s Star”, in America in March. Read more

"This is a literal-minded novel about a visionary subject—a grand mismatch of terms, a happily mixed metaphor, and an audacious effort for that." Writes Eric Banks on www.bookforum.com. Read more

A reception and poetry reading from the book release "Youth" by Nobel Prize in Literature-winner, Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) will be held at the Writer's Center in Bethesda,MD. April 21. Read more

The Norwegian journalist Sigrun Slapgard will be interviewed by Ales Ree about her biography of Sigrid Undset at the Norwegian Seamen's Church on November 9. Read more

The New York Public Library present lectures on Knut Hamsun, and relevant films every Tuesday through Dec 8th. Read more

Norway’s acclaimed graphic novelist Jason returns with his most eagerly awaited book yet, thanks to the inclusion of the title story, the world’s first (and likely last) chess western, originally serialized in 2008 in the New York Times Sunday Magazine “Funny Pages” section. Read more

"The Man in the Window", K.O.Dahl's second book published in the US, is available from March 31, 2009. Read more

The award winning author Kjell Ola Dahl is one of Norway’s top crime writers. Now, four of his renowned novels are to be published in the U.S. Expect corrupt businessmen and femme fatales. And some poetry. Read more

Following up the LA Times Book Prize-winning “The Indian Bride,” comes Karin Fossum’s fifth U.S. released Konrad Sejer mystery, "Black Seconds."  Read more

Norwegian crime literature continues its success story in the U.S. with the publishing of “What Never Happens”, the second book in Anne Holt’s popular Stubo/Vik series. Read more