Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature
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The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature (Det Norske Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur) is a Norwegian learned body on matters pertaining to the Norwegian language. Its primary role is regulating the written standard known in Norwegian as Riksmål and in English as Traditional Standard Norwegian.
The academy was founded in 1953 by several notable Norwegian authors and poets, among them Arnulf Øverland, Sigurd Hoel, A. H. Winsnes, Cora Sandel and Francis Bull, who disagreed with the official language policy aiming to merge Bokmål with Nynorsk and who protested against what they called state discrimination against the traditional Norwegian standard language Riksmål, which was the de facto standard language of Norway, used by most large newspapers and by the majority of the population.
In addition to regulate Traditional Standard Norwegian, the most conservative and Danish-near form of Norwegian, the academy publish dictionaries and support the publishing of literature in Standard Norwegian.
The Academy has 44 members, who are specialists in areas including Nordic studies, German, English and French languages and literature, history, philosophy, law, political science, poetry etc. The President of the Academy is the Conservative Party politician Lars Roar Langslet, a former Norwegian cabinet secretary of culture, and the Presidium also consists of John Ole Askedal, Professor of German, Tor Guttu, Associate Professor of Nordic languages and deputy chairman of the Riksmål Society, as well as Nils Heyerdahl, theatre director.
The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature was represented in the Norwegian Language Council (Språkrådet), which regulates the official Bokmål and Nynorsk languages.
In 1981, the Academy merged with Riksmålsvernet, founded 1919.
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- http://www.riksmalsforbundet.no/akademi.html (In Norwegian)
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