The Writers' Guild of Norway (Norwegian : Norske Dramatikeres Forbund) is an association of Norwegian dramatists and playwrights. It was established in 1938, to protect Norwegian playwrights' professional and economic interests. In 2007 the association had around 250 members. [1]
Harald Tandrup was a Danish writer. He used the pseudonyms Claus Colding or Klavs Kolding. His first novel was entitled Ain-Mokra and appeared 1900. He also wrote Reluctant Prophet. In 1946 he was excluded from the Danish Writer's Association.
The Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year is an annual award given by the Norwegian Association of Sports Journalists.
Kolbein Falkeid was one of the most widely read contemporary Norwegian poets. He was known for a lyrical poet's voice that is at once philosophical and approachable.
Events in the year 1954 in Norway.
Henning Bahs was a Danish screenwriter and special effects designer. He wrote for 41 films between 1960 and 2002. He is best known as the co-author of the Olsen-banden series of films. The Henning Bahs Award was established in 2012 by the Danish Film Critics Association in commemoration of Bahs' death ten years earlier.
Øyvind Berg (born 14 January 1959 is a Norwegian lyric poet, playwright, actor and translator.
Ebba Margareta Haslund Halvorsen was a Norwegian novelist, writer of short stories, playwright, essayist, children's writer, literary critic, radio speaker and politician.
Øystein Elgarøy was a Norwegian astronomer, with a specialty in solar radio astronomy.
Torvald Tu was a Norwegian poet, playwright, novelist and writer of humoresques.
Norwaco is a union for rights holders in audiovisual works in Norway.
Alexander Brinchmann was a Norwegian pediatrician. He was also a songwriter, novelist, playwright and crime fiction writer. He chaired of the Norwegian Pediatric Society from 1933 to 1934 and the Norwegian Authors' Union from 1941 to 1945.
Maria Tryti Vennerød is a Norwegian playwright.
The Association of Norwegian Insurance Companies was an employers' organisation in Norway.
The Norwegian Reserve Officers' Association is an interest organisation for military reserve officers in Norway.
Norwegian Automobile Federation is a Norwegian association of car owners, established in 1924, and member of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. The federation has 73 local chapters and more than 500,000 members. NAF is running a number of test stations, skidpans and camping sites. Among its publications is the monthly magazine Motor and the triannual NAF Veibok.
Paul Christian Frank was a Norwegian barrister, politician, organizer and non-fiction writer.
Tore Ulf Axel Zetterholm (1915–2001) was a Swedish novelist, playwright and journalist. He made his literary debut in 1940 with the novel Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket. He chaired the Writers' Guild of Sweden from 1957 to 1972. He was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1978.
NAF Veibok is a triannual publication issued by the Norwegian Automobile Federation. The book contains road maps, route descriptions and other road information. The first edition of the book came in 1928. The 29th edition, published in 2010, contains a total of about 800 pages, including an atlas of 136 map pages of a scale of 1:400,000, covering the Norwegian mainland.
Danish Writers Guild is a trade union for playwrights and screenwriters in theatre, radio, television and film, and for translators of drama and librettists.
Mansour Koushan (Persian: منصور کوشان) was a prominent Iranian novelist, poet, playwright, editor and director. He received the Ossietzky Award in 2010 for his outstanding work for human rights and freedom of expression. He was an active member of Iranian Writers’ Association and a strong opponent to the Iranian regime. In December 1998 Koushan was invited by the Norwegian Forum for Freedom of Expression to deliver a speech at the 50th anniversary of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights Charter. Not long after, he received news that two of his friends and colleagues Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh had been abducted and killed in Tehran. His name was likewise on the regimes death list. These killings were part of what is known as Chain Murders of Iran. Koushan was then forced to live in exile and resided in Norway the rest of his life.
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