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Nobel Prize · NorwayAgain and again it is claimed that Hamsun's Nobel Prize-winning novel The Produce of the Field (1917) is a racist novel. This is often justified by references to and quotations from what is actually found in the novel of racist characteristics of the Sami. The problem is that the context of these characteristics, both literary and historical, is often underemphasized. That we, as Erik Vassenden writes in an essay in Morgenbladet on March 4, must…Read Article
If We Look More Closely at the Context, the Alleged Racism in Markens Grøde Becomes More Complicated.
Podcast · Oslo“When you hear the answer about Mars, you wonder if he’s a slob.” Nicolai Tangen’s words were not included in his much-discussed podcast episode with Elon Musk, but they became public with the new TV series that shows “The Oil Fund from the Inside.” It was shortly after the recording of the conversation with the Tesla founder that he served up the popular, but still accurate, characterization.Read Article
