Alf Prøysen was a Norwegian author, poet, playwright, songwriter and musician. Prøysen was one of the most important Norwegian cultural personalities in the second half of the 20th century. He worked in several different media including books, newspapers and records. He also made significant contributions to music as well as to television and radio. He also wrote in the Arbeiderbladet from 1954 until his death.
Rolf Jacobsen was a Norwegian writer.
Sigurd Evensmo was a Norwegian author and journalist.
Tormod Haugen was a Norwegian writer of children's books and translator. For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1990.
Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg was a Norwegian farmer and politician for the Centre Party. He chaired the Norwegian Agrarian Association from 1951 to 1955 and was a member of Parliament from 1957 to 1965.
Hamar katedralskole is an upper secondary school in Hamar, Norway.
Thorkild Hansen was a Danish novelist most noted for his historical fiction. He is popularly known for his trilogy of novels about the Danish slave trade which is composed of Coast of Slaves (1967), Ships of Slaves (1968), and Islands of Slaves.
Gyldendal's Endowment was a literature prize that was awarded in the period 1934–1995 by the Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. The prize was awarded to significant authors, regardless of which publisher the author was associated with.
Liv Køltzow is a Norwegian novelist, playwright, biographer and essayist.
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.
Einar Økland is a Norwegian poet, playwright, essayist and children's writer.
Cecilie Løveid is a Norwegian novelist, poet, playwright, and writer of children's books.
Finn Carling was a Norwegian novelist, playwright, poet and essayist.
Arbeideren was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Hamar, Hedmark county. It was started in 1909 as the press organ of the Labour Party in Hedemarken and its adjoining regions, and was called Demokraten until 1923. It was issued three days a week between 1909 and 1913, six days a week in 1914, three days a week again between 1914 and 1918 before again increasing to six days a week. It was renamed to Arbeideren in 1923, and in the same year it was taken over by the Norwegian Communist Party. The Communist Party incorporated the newspaper Gudbrandsdalens Arbeiderblad into Arbeideren in 1924, and until 1929 the newspaper was published under the name Arbeideren og Gudbrandsdalens Arbeiderblad. After Arbeideren had gone defunct, the name was used by the Communist Party for other newspapers elsewhere.
Magnhild Haalke was a Norwegian novelist.
Ole Mørk Sandvik was a Norwegian educator, musicologist and folk-song collector.
Tor Edvin Dahl is a Norwegian novelist, crime fiction writer, playwright, children's writer, non-fiction writer, translator, literary critic and journalist. He made his literary debut in 1968 with the short story collection En sommer tung av regn. His first novel was Den andre from 1972, and his literary breakthrough was the novel Guds tjener from 1973.
Adolf Skjegstad, who usually called himself A. Skjegstad was a Norwegian journalist.
Rudolf Hedemann was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Sweetwater is a Norwegian science-fiction / thriller film from 1988 directed by Lasse Glomm. It is about the struggle to survive in an anarchic vision of the future, and it is based on the novels Uår. Aftenlandet and Uår. Sweetwater by Knut Faldbakken. The books were published in 1974 and 1976. Sweetwater was filmed at locations in Rome and London. The film has been aired on NRK several times.
