Lecture: Regine Normann and her fairy tale collections

Welcome to a lecture on the author Regine Normann and her fairy tale collections, Monday 21.9 at 18:00 at Øksnes museum.

The author Regine Normann (1867-1939) was from Bø in Vesterålen. She has an authorship of 18 books consisting of novels, fairy tales and legends. In the last two years, her fairy tale collections, Fairy Tales (1925) and New Fairy Tales (1926), have had their 100th anniversary, and the lecture will focus on these texts. Finally, there will be a reading of one of Regine Normann’s beautiful fairy tales.

The speakers are Gøril Karlsen, head of the Regine Normann Foundation, and Liv Helene Willumsen, who has written the biography The Merman’s Daughter. Regine Normann – a lifetime.

The lecture is part of a museum tour in Vesterålen.
Entrance kr. 100,- Children under 16 go free. Coffee and something to snack on will be served.

The lecture will be held in the exhibition room in the museum building. There is parking outside the museum, entrance is up the hill and to the left.