Awards ceremony for Nordic Council prizes 2023

Every year, the Nordic Council awards five prizes in recognition of Nordic literature, languages, music, and film, as well as innovative initiatives in the field of the environment.

A total of 54 works, initiatives, and artists from all the Nordic countries have been nominated for the Nordic Council prizes for 2023. The nominees include novels, poetry collections, short stories and picture books, composers, music groups, pianists, and an orchestra, as well as initiatives focusing on the environmental challenges within the textile industry. Among the feature films nominated this year is the first ever film prize nomination from Greenland.

The broadcast from the Norwegian Opera and Ballet in Oslo will start at 19:30 (CET) and can be watched live at norden.org and on NRK starting at 20:00 (CET).
 

The hosts for the evening are Kåre Conradi and Ingrid Bjørnov, who together will also set the musical tone for the awards ceremony. The audience can look forward to Sami pop from Kajsa Balto and her band, Nasjonalballeten UNG who will present new choreography by Kumiko Hayakawa, the Norwegian-Moroccan hip-hop star Jonas Benyoub who will perform “Spor i Snøen”, and former music prize nominee Stian Carstensen who, together with Romkameratene, will take us on a folk music journey through Europe.
 

The winners will receive the Northern Lights statuette and DKK 300,000. Giving out the prizes are:
 

• Nordic Council Environment Prize – His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon and Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit
• Nordic Council Music Prize – musician Kajsa Balto, who will also perform during the evening 
• Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize – author Maja Lunde 
• Nordic Council Film Prize – actor Maria Bonnevie 
• Nordic Council Literature Prize – Norway’s Minister for Culture and Equality Lubna Jaffery 
   

You can follow our live updates from the awards ceremony on social media. Join us behind the scenes and be the first to know about everything happening on stage with the winners, acknowledgments, and of course all the artists.  We use the hashtag #nrpriser.
 

First awarded in 1962, the literature prize is the oldest of the five prizes, and has since been followed by the music prize, the environment prize, the film prize and the children and young people’s literature prize. Five adjudication committees select the nominees and the winner.