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 Norwegian language. Its primary role is regulating the written standard known as Riksmål (in English: Traditional Standard Norwegian).
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. 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 publish dictionaries and support 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 the Conservative Party politician Lars Roar Langslet, a former Norwegian Minister of Culture, and the Presidium also consists of John Ole Askedal, Professor of German, Tor Guttu, Associate Professor of Nordic languages and deputy chairman of the Riksmål Society, as well as Nils Heyerdahl, theatre director.
The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature was represented in the Norwegian Language Council, which regulates the official Bokmål and Nynorsk languages.
In 1981, the Academy merged with Riksmålsvernet, founded in 1919.
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Members
The following are current members of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature:[1]
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See also
References
- ^ "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 April 2009.
External links
- Official site (Norwegian)
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