Bergen Cathedral School
Winner of the Holberg Prize School Project
Edvard Hove Rosenlund from Bergen Cathedral Schol came in third place in the Holberg School Programme 2024 with the research project "Knut Hamsun 72 years after his death".
The project “Knut Hamsun 72 years after his death” revisits the controversies surrounding the Norwegian Nobel laurate turned nazi. Hamsuns authorship and the ethical questions of whether we should read him is investigated considering the ongoing cultural debates about cancel-culture.
Rosenlund provides an overview of central parts of the authorship’s reception and historical debates and by introducing high schoolers voices on Hamsun the project juxtapositions historical and current debates, shedding new light on both.
The Holberg Prize School Project
20 upper secondary schools and more than 1000 students from all over Norway participate in the Holberg School Programme each year. The students are assisted by scholars, and the projects are integrated into the students' regular curriculum. Three research projects are awarded prizes of NOK 30,000, NOK 20,000 and NOK 10,000 respectively.
The finalists are announced in mid May, and the Holberg Prize School Project Award Ceremony is held during the Holberg Week in early June each year.
The Holberg School Project Jury
Jørn Ljunggren ( Chair ), Researcher, Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, OsloMet
Åsta Dyrnes Nordø, Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Bergen
Fredrik Nilsen, Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy and First Semester Studies, UiT Arctic University of Norway
Elise Farstad Djupedal, PhD Candiate in Pedagogy, Department of Teacher Education, NTNU
Tale Birkeland Engebretsen, Teacher in Norwegian, History and German, and Head of the Writing Centre at Porsgrunn Upper Secondary School.