Join us at Norway House as we live stream the Fosse Lecture 2026 from Norway’s Royal Palace. Distinguished American author Marilynne Robinson has been invited to give the Fosse lecture and Dutch translator Paula Stevens is the winner of the 2026 Fosse Prize for Translators.

The Fosse Lecture and the Fosse Prize for Translators were established by the Norwegian Government in honor of Nobel Prize–winning author Jon Fosse. The annual event is organized by the National Library of Norway, with the lecture and award ceremony at the Royal Palace.

Norway House will livestream this event in Sundet Auditorium. We will open our doors at 8:30 am. Minnesota author Peter Geye will give opening remarks at 8:50 and the streaming begins promptly at 9:00 am.

‘We look forward to honoring them [Robinson and Stevens] during the Fosse Lecture and the Fosse Prize in Oslo in April’, said Minister of Culture and Equality Lubna Jaffery. ‘Marilynne Robinson is a distinctive writer and thinker who writes with a profound faith in humanity and in the power that resides within us. Prizewinner Paula Stevens, through her life’s work in translation and literary dissemination, has played a decisive role in bringing Norwegian literature to new readers’, Jaffery said.

Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit is the Royal Patron of the distinctions. At the invitation of The Royal House, the Fosse Lecture and the awarding of the Fosse Prize will take place at the Royal Palace.

There will be a waffle bar and coffee from 8:30 am to 9:00 am. $10 a person. This event is free for Norway House members. $10 general admission.

Please see more information about the authors being honored in the Q&A below.