13 Dec, 2018
Translations of the 19th-century Norwegian novelist introduce her to new audiences Barbara Sjoholm Port Townsend, Wash. Three Norwegian novels: A pretty, high-spirited singer at Copenhagen’s Tivoli captures the heart of a gentleman who hopes...
29 Nov, 2018
Book review Rosalie Grosch Arden Hills, Minn. For the passengers on The Empress of Ireland, one of the prestigious passenger liners belonging to the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), the ominous blasts of the ship’s...
15 Nov, 2018
Norwegian comedian’s book details his reluctant attempt to love the outdoors M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway Are Kalvø (1969- ) was born and grew up in Stranda, a municipality in the Sunnmøre region of...
13 Nov, 2018
Book review: Norwegian Trolls & Rosemaling Doug Warne KKNW Scandinavian Hour Okay, I admit it: when I first noticed the title and then the cover of this book, I was hooked on the idea...
29 Oct, 2018
Meet the author Christine Foster Meloni Washington Christine Foster Meloni: What sparked your interest in the Nazi occupation of Norway? J. L. Oakley: My interest in Norway actually goes back to a dream I...
29 Oct, 2018
Book review Christine Foster Meloni Washington We can often learn more from a well-researched and -written historical novel than from a scholarly book by an eminent historian. This is certainly the case with J....
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...
4 Sep, 2018
Book review Thor A. Larsen Fishkill, N.Y. The incredible feat in 1943 by Norwegian saboteurs to destroy the cylinders of “heavy water” being created at the hydroelectric power plant in Vemork, near Rjukan, has...
23 Aug, 2018
Book review Janell Pape Bradley Wadena, Iowa Alex Dahl’s first novel, The Boy at the Door, released this July in both Norwegian and English, has been described as a gritty novel of psychological suspense....
27 Jul, 2018
Need a book? Arm yourself against boredom with summer reading recommendations from The Norwegian American staff! We recommend: The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt Artist Harriet Burden has had scant success in the New...
Choose your own Christmas goat & gnome
14 Dec, 2018
The magic of the missing nisse
13 Dec, 2018
Norsk 101: Saint Lucia Day (Luciadagen)
13 Dec, 2018
And the winning gingerbread is…
13 Dec, 2018
13 Dec, 2018
Choose your own Christmas goat & gnome
14 Dec, 2018
Shopping in Norway (Shopping i Norge)
14 Nov, 2018
Five prizes in one week for Los Bando
14 Nov, 2018
15 Nov, 2018
“More than a sweater” for 140 years
15 Nov, 2018
