1952 in Norway

Events in the year 1952 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Haakon VII
• Prime Minister - Oscar Torp (Labour Party)

Events

The "Oslo flag" used during the closing ceremonies of the 1952 Winter Games

• 7 January – 15 died in a mine explosion in Svalbard.
• 14–25 February – 1952 Winter Olympics are held in Oslo.
• Around April 4 five Norwegian seal hunting vessels went down in a storm in the West Ice. The West Ice accidents claimed 78 lives in total.
• 24 November - Folketeatret (lit. The People's Theatre) opened in Oslo.

Popular culture

Sports

• Olaf Barda, chess player, becomes the first Norwegian to be awarded the title of International Master

Film

Main article: Norwegian films of the 1950s § 1952

• 20 March – Thor Heyerdahl received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 24th Academy Awards for the Kon-Tiki film.

Notable births

• 25 January - Inga Balstad, politician
• 11 March - Vigdis Giltun, politician
• 6 March – Nils Johan Ringdal, author and historian (died 2008)
• 25 April - Ketil Bjørnstad, pianist and composer
• 2 May - Gunda Johansen, politician
• 13 May - Lars Amund Vaage, author and playwright
• 19 May - Guri Ingebrigtsen, politician
• 10 July - Kari Husøy, politician
• 18 July - Per Petterson, novelist
• 27 July - Torfinn Bjarkøy, civil servant
• 8 August - Jostein Gaarder, author
• 19 August - Lillian Müller, model and actress
• 18 September - Gunn Olsen, politician
• 25 October - Helen Fløisand, politician
• 18 November - Gerd Janne Kristoffersen, politician

Full date unknown

• Anne-Lise Bakken, politician and Minister
• Magnus Takvam, journalist

Notable deaths

Knut Hamsun

• 11 February - Ola Torstensen Lyngstad, politician (born 1894)
• 14 February - Johan Clementz, boxer (born 1894)
• 19 February - Knut Hamsun, author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (born 1859)
• 13 March - Johan Nygaardsvold, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (born 1879)
• 20 April - Sigurd Maseng, diplomat (born 1894)
• 14 May - Carl Julius Alvin Westerlund, politician (born 1885)
• 13 June - Andreas Brecke, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (born 1879)
• 28 September - Ingvald Tøndel, politician (born 1887)
• 14 November - Aldor Ingebrigtsen, politician (born 1888)
• 14 December - Fartein Valen, composer and musical theorist (born 1887)

Full date unknown

• Adam Egede-Nissen, politician (born 1868)
• Christian Wegner Haaland, ship-owner and politician (born 1892)
• Knut Liestøl, politician and Minister (born 1881)
• William Martin Nygaard, publisher and politician (born 1865)