* Nynorsk Literature Prize ( 1988 )

* Nynorsk Literature Prize ( 2003 )

The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature was represented, along with other non-governmental language organisations, in the Norwegian Language Council, which regulates the official Bokmål and Nynorsk languages, since its establishment in 1972 until it was reorganized in 2005.

By February 2007, the Bokmål / Riksmål edition had over 100, 000 articles and the Nynorsk site had over 20, 000 articles.

The Nynorsk translation of The Lord of the Rings used the term for both ring-wraiths and the dead men of Dunharrow.

In Olav Jakobsen Høyem's version of Nynorsk based on Trøndersk, the ð was always silent and was introduced for etymological reasons.

In Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic the Old Norse form has survived to this day ( in Icelandic only as a less used synonym to gluggi ), in Swedish the word vindöga remains as a term for a hole through the roof of a hut, and in the Danish language ‘ vindue ’ and Norwegian Bokmål ‘ vindu ’, the direct link to ‘ eye ’ is lost, just like for ' window '.

Aasen, a self-taught linguistic scholar and philologist, documented a written grammar and dictionary for the spoken Norwegian folk language, which became Nynorsk ( New Norwegian ) – the " speech of the country " as opposed to the official language largely imported from Denmark.

Nynorsk, Neo Norwegian or New Norwegian is one of two official written standards for the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål.

The prevailing regions for Nynorsk are the rural areas of the western counties of Rogaland, Hordaland, Sogn og Fjordane and Møre og Romsdal, in addition to the western / northern parts of Oppland, Buskerud, Telemark, Aust-and Vest-Agder, where an estimated 90 % of the population writes Nynorsk.

In Nynorsk these are important distinctions, in contrast to Bokmål, in which all feminine words may also become masculine ( due to the incomplete transition to a three-gender system ) and inflect using its forms, and indeed a feminine word may be seen in both forms, for example boka or boken (“ the book ”).

In Nynorsk ( unlike Bokmål ), masculine and feminine nouns are differentiated not only in the singular definitive form ( in which the noun takes a suffix to indicate " the "), but also in the plural forms ( which they would not be in Bokmål ), for example:

The translator chose an archaic and slightly garbled version of Nynorsk for the mountain-dwellers, and this was widely seen as an insult.

He synthesized a grammar, vocabulary, and orthography for a separate Norwegian language that became the origin of Nynorsk.

There are two Norwegian language editions of Wikipedia: one for articles written in Bokmål or Riksmål, and one for articles written in Nynorsk.

* Rasmus Flo ( 1851 – 1905 ), Norwegian teacher, philologist, magazine editor, translator and proponent for Nynorsk language

On the other area, Nynorsk, debates went on for many years, and had to be silenced through political agreement as late as 1959.

Prejudice, mostly against Nynorsk prevailed for many years, and are still a prominent feature amongst teenagers in Oslo.

Noregs Mållag ( literally " Language Organisation of Norway ") is the main organisation for Norwegian Nynorsk ( New Norwegian ), one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language.

Norsk Målungdom ( NMU, literally The Norwegian Language Youth ) is an organization of youth working for the Nynorsk written standard of Norwegian and the Norwegian dialects.

Konungs skuggsjá ( Old Norse for " King's mirror "; Latin: Speculum regale, modern Norwegian: Kongsspegelen ( Nynorsk ) or Kongespeilet ( Bokmål )) is a Norwegian educational text from around 1250, an example of speculum literature that deals with politics and morality.

Høgnorsk, meaning " High Norwegian ", is a term for varieties of the Norwegian language form Nynorsk that reject most of the official reforms that have been introduced since the creation of Landsmål.

Among the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature more than half are practically unknown to readers of English.

Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature " for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times ".< ref >

Meanwhile, the British MI6 and the American CIA commenced an operation to ensure that Doctor Zhivago was correctly submitted to the Nobel Committee, which requires that nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature must be submitted in their original language.

In 1954, Compañía ‘ Ron Bacardi ’ S. A. paid him homage when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature of his novel The Old Man and the Sea ( 1952 ), in which he honored the Company by mentioning its Hatuey beer.

She also won the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for Living on Light.

Three 20th century Danish authors have become Nobel Prize laureates in Literature: Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan ( joint recipients in 1917 ) and Johannes Vilhelm Jensen ( awarded 1944 ).

* 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature " in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings ".

* 1999: The Esperanto poet William Auld is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

* Maurice Maeterlinck, poet, playwright, essayist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( 1862 – 1949 )

* The Nobel Prize Biography on Shaw, From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901 – 1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, ( 1969 ).

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, introduced the term to the Western world with the 1973 publication of his novel The Gulag Archipelago.

Engdahl announces J. M. G. Le Clézio | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio winning the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 9, 2008.

* Herman Charles Bosman Prize for Literature

Category: Austrian State Prize for European Literature winners

He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature and refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that " a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.

In October 1964, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but he declined it.

She was also awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for her book Pranic Nourishment — Living on Light, " which explains that although some people do eat food, they don't ever really need to.

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ; the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ; the Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature ; and the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organisation but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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