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Last updated: 02/09/2009 //
The Hamsun Centre will open on 4 August to coincide with the 150-year anniversary of Hamsun's birth. Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette Marit will open the Hamsun Centre. The architect of the centre, Mr. Steven Holl will also attend.
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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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The first International Ibsen Prize was presented to the British director Peter Brook (83) at the National Theatre in Oslo on Saturday. The prize is worth NOK 2.5 million.
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The Norwegian comic novel ” The Left Bank Gang” is presented the prize for best foreign comic at the American Eisner Award in San Diego in July.
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One hundred years after his death, the playwright Henrik Ibsen continues to provoke and challenge his audiences with the questions he raises about women’s rights and gender equality. The “Nora’s sisters” project uses Ibsen’s works to stimulate debate on gender equality in different cultures.
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His Majesty King Harald V appointed Slovak writer, translator and publisher Milan Richter Officer of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit. The insignia and diploma of the order was presented to M. Richter at a ceremony by the Ambassador of Norway to Slovakia, H.E. Brit Løvseth on December 17.
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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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Nórske veľvyslanectvo v spolupráci s Divadelným inštitútom vás pozýva na výstavu o svetoznámom nórskom dramatikovi Henrikovi Ibsenovi: Ibsen na Slovensku a Byť básnikom znamená vidieť - Ibsen a naša doba.
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Following Henrik Ibsen's footsteps is now an easy task: On www.exploreibsen.com you can tag along on the author's daily walk down Karl Johan street in Oslo. Along the way you will run into several known characters.
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