Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature

Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature

The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature (Norwegian: Det Norske Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur) is a Norwegian learned body on matters pertaining to the Dano-Norwegian language. Its primary role is regulating the written standard known as Riksmål (in English: National Language).

The academy was founded in 1953 by several notable Norwegian authors and poets, among them Arnulf Øverland, Sigurd Hoel, A.H. Winsnes, Cora Sandel and Francis Bull. They disagreed with the official language policy aiming to merge Bokmål with Nynorsk and protested against what they called state discrimination against the dominant Norwegian written standard Riksmål. This was Norway's de facto written language, used by most large newspapers and by the majority of the population as a written standard (although not necessarily a spoken one). The Academy was modelled after the Swedish Academy and the French Academy.

In addition to regulating Riksmål, the most conservative and Danish-near form of Norwegian, the academy publishes dictionaries and supports the publishing of literature in Riksmål.

The Academy has 44 members, each of whom is a specialist in miscellaneous areas of analysis, investigation and expertise. These include Nordic studies, German, English and French languages and literature, history, philosophy, law, political science, poetry et cetera. The President of the Academy is Nils Heyerdahl, former Head of Radio Drama in NRK, and the Presidium also consists of Tor Guttu, Associate Professor of Nordic languages and deputy chairman of the Riksmål Society, as well as Per Qvale, translator, Karin Gundersen, professor of French Literature and Helene Uri, linguist and author.

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.

In 1981, the Academy merged with Riksmålsvernet, founded in 1919.

Contents

Members

The following are current members of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature:[1]

  • Hilde Sejersted
  • Ole Michael Selberg
  • Rune Slagstad
  • Kristian Smidt
  • Eilif Straume
  • Henrik Syse
  • Jan Jakob Tønseth
  • Helene Uri
  • Finn-Erik Vinje
  • Gunnar Christie Wasberg
  • Egil A. Wyller
  • Vigdis Ystad
  • Asbjørn Aarnes

See also

References

  1. ^ "Det Norske Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. http://www.riksmalsforbundet.no/Det-Norske-Akademi.aspx. Retrieved 25 December 2010. 

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