The Cappelen Prize (Norwegian : Cappelenprisen) is a Norwegian literary award that was established in 1979 by the publishing company J.W. Cappelens Forlag, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publishing house. [1] [2] It has not been awarded after J.W. Cappelens Forlag merged with N. W. Damm & Søn to Cappelen Damm in 2007.
Events in the year 1909 in Norway.
Jørgen Wright Cappelen was a Norwegian bookseller and publisher. He was one of the founders of the publishing house Cappelen Damm.
Henrik Johan Florentz Groth was a Norwegian publisher and essayist, who was managing director of the Cappelen publishing company from 1947 to 1973.
Sindre Guldvog is a Norwegian publisher.
Cappelen is a Norwegian family of German origin. Johan von Cappelen immigrated to Norway in 1653 and became bailiff in Lier. A number of his descendants were businessmen, land owners, civil servants and politicians. The family is especially known for the former publishing company J.W. Cappelens Forlag. Variants of the name Cappelen are also used throughout Germany by many other families.
J.W. Cappelens Forlag, usually referred to as Cappelen, was one of the oldest publishing houses of Norway.
Rune Belsvik is a Norwegian novelist, playwright, short story writer and children's writer.
Odd Eidem was a Norwegian writer, journalist and literary critic.
Albert Cammermeyer was a Norwegian bookseller and publisher. He was a pioneer in Norwegian publishing and founder of Alb. Cammermeyers bokhandel og forlag.
Events in the year 1967 in Norway.
Events in the year 1914 in Norway.
Cappelen Damm AS is a Norwegian publisher established in 2007. The present company resulted from the merger of J.W. Cappelens Forlag, founded in 1829, and N.W. Damm & Søn, founded in 1843. Cappelen Damm is jointly owned by the Bonnier Group and Egmont.
Jahn Otto Johansen was a Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, foreign correspondent and non-fiction writer.
Karin Sveen is a Norwegian poet, novelist and essayist.
Helmut Ormestad was a Norwegian physicist and researcher at the University of Oslo, specializing in acoustics. In 1983 he was awarded the Cappelen Prize, for co-writing the physics textbook series Rom Stoff Tid with Otto Øgrim and Kåre Lunde.
Ingeborg Arvola is a Norwegian novelist and children's writer.
Club 7 was a cultural club in Oslo, Norway, active from 1963 to 1985. It was regarded a centre for counterculture in Norway in the 1960s through the 1970s. There was a wide tolerance for alternative lifestyles, including homosexuality.
Per Roger Lauritzen is Norwegian non-fiction writer. He hails from Asker. He has worked as an editor for the Norwegian Trekking Association for more than thirty years, and has published more than fifty books. He was awarded Den norske friluftslivprisen in 2007, jointly with Leif Ryvarden.
Steinar Hansson was a Norwegian journalist and publisher. He was born in Asker. He worked as editor in the publishing house Pax Forlag, and edited the newspaper Ny Tid from 1979. From 1983 he worked for the publishing house J.W. Cappelens Forlag. He was cultural editor for the newspaper Arbeiderbladet, and later for Dagbladet. He was chief editor of Arbeiderbladet from 1995 to 2001
Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster.