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. Hamsun’s 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 School Programme
The Holberg School Programme is an annual research competition for students in Norwegian upper secondary schools i the humanities, social sciences law and theology. Each year, around 1,000 students from 20 selected schools participate in the competition.
The Holberg School Programme Jury selects three research projects that are awarded prizes of NOK 30,000, NOK 20,000 and NOK 10,000 respectively.
The finalists are announced in mid May, and the award ceremony is held during the Holberg Week in early June each year.