Knut Ødegård is a Norwegian poet.
Øystein Runde is a Norwegian comics writer and comics artist. Runde, Kristopher Schau and Frode Hanssen published the weekly science/humor podcast 80% from 2019 to 2020, after its end in october 2020 when Schau moved to Drammen, Runde started an english-language science podcast called Wunderdog, where he talks to "the scientists behind the ideas". Guests so far have been professor Philip Lubin who invented the concept for Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milners "Breakthrough starshot" laser, professor Robin Hanson who invented the term "The Great Filter" and wrote Age of Em about mind uploads, doctor Cynthia Phillips from NASA, staff scientist for the Europa Clipper project.
Trude Brænne Larssen is a Norwegian novelist. She is the author of the series Holmegaard, "Ulveøyne" and "Rimfrost", and has contributed to the series "Emilies Tid". Her earlier books were published on the Egmont Publishing House, but most were published by Cappelen Damm Publishing House.
Turid Birkeland was a Norwegian cultural executive and former politician for the Labour Party. She was Minister of Culture in 1996–97. She was an author and also worked in television, including being chief of cultural programming at NRK and a member of the board at Telenor. She also headed the Risør Chamber Music Festival, and was the director of Concerts Norway.
NBU-prisen is a prize which is awarded by the Norwegian Writers for Children to a person or institution who had produced award-winning work in children's or youth literature in Norway. It is awarded every year to a Norwegian author or organization. The actual prize is a work of art, typically created by an illustrator of children’s books.
Gro Dahle is a Norwegian poet and writer.
Jørgen Wright Cappelen was a Norwegian bookseller and publisher. He was one of the founders of the publishing house Cappelen Damm.
Sindre Guldvog is a Norwegian publisher.
Inger Elisabeth Hansen is a Norwegian poet and translator. She has been awarded the Dobloug Prize, the Brage Prize, and the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. She was president of the Norwegian Writers' Union from 1997 to 1999.
Paal-Helge Haugen is a Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist and children's writer who has published over 30 books. His titles have been translated into at least 20 languages. His 1968 "punktroman" or "pointillist novel," Anne, was the first in its genre and was soon considered a modern classic. In 2019, Hanging Loose Press published the first English translation of Anne], after Julia Johanne Tolo's translation of the book won the sixth annual Loose Translations Prize, jointly sponsored by Hanging Loose Press and the graduate writing program of Queens College, City University of New York.
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.
Marianne Viermyr is a Norwegian children's author. She debuted as an author in 1976 and has written full-time since 1988. She won the Damm Prize in 1989 for Sviktet. She lived in the Østfold for 18 years before she settled in Bærum in 1989.
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.
Norunn Tveiten Benestad is a Norwegian politician and Member of Parliament (Stortinget) from Vest-Agder County, representing the Conservative Party. She was elected at the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election. She is a member of the Standing Committee on Education, Research and Church Affairs.
Hilde Lindset is a Norwegian author.
The Lion Woman is a novel by the Norwegian writer Erik Fosnes Hansen. It was published in 2006, and a film adaptation was released in 2016.
Ingvild Hedemann Rishøi is a Norwegian writer and journalist. As a journalist she has worked for Dagbladet and Dagens Næringsliv, particularly within feature journalism. She has published the children's books Unbrakomonsteret – Ikea om natten (2007) and Pling i bollen – fine og ufine barnerim (2012) with Cappelen Damm. Her short story collections La stå (2007), Historien om Fru Berg (2011), Vinternoveller (2014), and the novel Stargate – en julefortelling (2021) were published by Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. She won the Sult Prize in 2012, the Brage Prize and the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 2014.
Arne Svingen is a Norwegian writer of children's books. He also writes adult fiction and books for young adults. He has published over a hundred titles and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Kirsti Blom is a Norwegian author, raised in Hov in Søndre Land.
Mari Moen Holsve is a Norwegian children's and young adult fiction writer.
