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Hello and welcome to World Book cafe on the BBC's World Service.
I'm Octavia Bright and today I'm in Oslo, the capital of Norway, finding out if it's one of the best places in the world to be a writer.
We're here tonight in the biggest public literature house in Europe.
Every year, the literature huse holds 1,700 events dedicated to books and conversation, attracting around a quarter of a million people.
It's just one part of this country's strong literary culture.
From Norse mythology to literary fiction to to Nordic noir, Norwegian books sell in their millions around the world.
And when in 2023, Jan Fossey won the most revered prize in writing, the Nobel Prize for Literature, it felt like this must be a pretty special place to be a writer.
But with a population of just 5.5 million, why?
And how does Norway punch above its weight in terms of books?
To get into all this and to talk about their work, I'm joined by Maja Lunda, whose 2015 novel the History of Bees was an international bestseller and the first in her climate quartet.
Johan Harsta, whose novels, plays, short stories, I mean, honestly, you name it, he's done it all.
And he was the first in house writer at the National Theater here in Oslo.
Gunhild Oehrhaug, a prize winning author whose witty and experimental short stories and novels have won her fans around the world.
And Oliver Lavrensky, whose first book Back in the Day was an instant bestseller when it was published in Norway in 2023 when he was just 19.
Please give them all a warm welcome.