4 Oct, 2018
REEL NEWS: From the Norwegian Film Institute (nfi.no) Norwegian director Iram Haq’s second feature What Will People Say (Hva vil folk si) will be Norway’s bid for the Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-Language Film.The...
3 Oct, 2018
Book review John Sealy’s The Betrayal of Norway, published this spring, is surprisingly less about Quisling in WWII than the historically fictional account of Captain Wilhelm Schmidt of the German occupation force, who arrived...
20 Sep, 2018
The beloved musician’s last Midwest tour celebrates Norway in music and song Leslee Lane Hoyum Rockford, Minn. After 15 incredible Upper Midwest tours, Norwegian trumpeter Kai Robert Johansen is making his farewell autumn tour...
19 Sep, 2018
Film review John Smistad Olympia, Wash. Hunting for a not-by-the-numbers thriller? Headhunters (Hodejegerne, 2011) is the movie for you. Leave it to those crafty Norwegians to fashion a film furnishing the beholder with everything...
5 Sep, 2018
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra recording takes a musical journey through the cultures of area locals Melinda Bargreen Everett, Wash. Norway’s best-known composers, including Edvard Grieg and Johan Halvorsen, have often turned to folk music as...
22 Aug, 2018
Powerful film explores the clash of cultures faced by some Pakistani Norwegians Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. As a New Yorker, I have been surrounded by multiculturalism since I can remember. Everyone in the neighborhood...
23 Jul, 2018
From movie to musical Lori Ann Reinhall The Norwegian American When Sweet Land was released in 2005, the independent film written and directed by Ali Selim quickly gained critical acclaim. Set in the Midwest...
9 Jul, 2018
Faber Navalis, a film by Maurizio Borriello, takes viewers inside a ship’s restoration Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. This film begins with the bangs of a resistant metal workshop door being forcibly opened, just sounds,...
27 Jun, 2018
Tarjei Vesaas’s classic novel is a haunting tale of friendship and secrecy that lasts beyond death Christine Foster Meloni Washington Tarjei Vesaas is widely acknowledged as the greatest Norwegian writer of the 20th century....
25 Jun, 2018
Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. Odd Andersen is the son of a Norwegian merchant sailor. Like many emigrants from Norway, Andersen’s family settled in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and that is where he was raised. Somewhat...
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Visit a Soviet ghost town in Norway
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Histories and identities interwoven
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