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Decades: 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s Centuries: 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 1968 in Norwegian football Other events of 1968 List of years in Norway

Incumbents

• King of Norway - Olav V of Norway
• Prime Minister of Norway - Per Borten

Events

Arts and literature

• The Norwegian Writers' Center (Norsk forfattersentrum) is established.
• Finn Alnæs, novelist, is awarded the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize and the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for the novel Gemini.^[1]
• Ebba Haslund, novelist, is awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize for Syndebukkens krets.^[2]

Births

• 31 January - May-Helen Molvær Grimstad, politician
• 19 March - Julie Christiansen, politician
• 22 March - Euronymous, black metal guitarist (d.1993)^[3]
• 27 June - Rikke Lind, politician
• 24 September - Beate Heieren Hundhammer, politician
• 6 December - Karl Ove Knausgård, author

Full date unknown

• Monica Mæland, politician

Deaths

January to March

• 18 January - Trygve Knudsen, philologist, linguist and lexicographer (b.1897)
• January - Jacob Gundersen, freestyle wrestler and Olympic silver medallist (b.1875)
• 29 February - Tore Ørjasæter, poet (b.1886)
• 12 March - Einar Kristian Haugen, politician (b.1905)
• 19 March - Aagot Didriksen, actress (b.1874)
• 25 March - Arnulf Øverland, author (b.1889)
• 31 March - Christen Wiese, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1876)

April to June

• 15 April - Martin Stenersen, sport shooter (b.1879)
• 25 April - Gunnar Andersen, international soccer player and ski jumper (b.1890)
• 11 May - Johan Andersen, politician (b.1902)
• 23 May - Georg Braathe, long distance runner (b.1903)
• 25 May - Kasper Idland, resistance member (b.1918)
• 1 June - Harald Eriksen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (b.1888)

July to December

• 6 July - Johan Sæterhaug, boxer (b.1893)
• 16 July - Sigurd Pedersen, politician (b.1893)
• 13 August - Øystein Ore, mathematician (b.1899)
• 16 August - Paul Ingebretsen, politician (b.1904)
• 24 September - Kjell Tellander, politician (b.1899)
• 3 October - Jens Martin Arctander Jenssen, politician (b.1885)
• 15 December - Håkon Bryhn, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (b.1901)
• 20 December - Anders Endreson Skrondal, politician (b.1891)
• 30 December - Trygve Lie, politician, the first elected United Nations Secretary-General (b.1896)

Full date unknown

• John Aae, politician (b.1890)
• Johannes S. Andersen, resistance fighter (b.1898)
• Paal Olav Berg, politician and Minister (b.1873)
• Odd Hølaas, journalist and writer (b.1898)
• Anton Olsen, rifle shooter and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1897)
• Engebret Skogen, rifle shooter and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1887)
• Arne Torkildsen, neurosurgeon (b.1899)
• Herman Willoch, painter (b.1892)

References