{"id":22689,"date":"2020-02-03T14:58:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T14:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/event\/velgengni-norskra-bokmennta\/"},"modified":"2020-02-03T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T14:59:14","slug":"velgengni-norskra-bokmennta","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/velgengni-norskra-bokmennta\/","title":{"rendered":"The Success of Norwegian Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Norwegian literature has enjoyed great success abroad in recent years. About one thousand Norwegian titles are translated into another language every year. This was particularly evident at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the fall of 2019, where Norway was the Guest of Honour. The Icelandic Halld\u00f3r Gu\u00f0mundsson led the project on behalf of Norway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Halld\u00f3r Gu\u00f0mundsson will talk about his work for Iceland\u2019s neighbors in the East on Tuesday 18 February at 17. He will also discuss Norwegian contemporary literature and what has made it internationally popular in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Norway\u2019s ambassador in Iceland,\u00a0Aud Lise Norheim, will hold a speech at the beginning.<br \/>\nThe meeting is being organized by the Nordic Association in Reykjavik in collaboration with The Nordic House and the project\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/nordurlond-i-fokus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">the Nordic Region in focus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian literature has enjoyed great success abroad in recent years. About one thousand Norwegian titles are translated into another language every year. This was particularly evident at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the fall of 2019, where Norway was the Guest of Honour. The Icelandic Halld\u00f3r Gu\u00f0mundsson led the project on behalf of Norway. Halld\u00f3r [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22684,"template":"","event-categories":[8,99],"class_list":["post-22689","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-literature","event-categories-the-nordic-region-in-focus","event_tags-nordic-region-in-focus","has-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/22689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=22689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}