Ingvild H. Rishøi Nominated for the Culture and Equality Ministry’s Prize

Ingvild H. Rishøi’s rhyme book, Borti natta, has been nominated for the Culture and Equality Ministry’s Prize in the category ‘Picture Book’.

The motivation for the nomination reads as follows:

“Borti natta consists of a vast variety of rhyming poems that shifts between frivolity and seriousness, offering a wide spectrum of themes and forms of expression. The poems are daring and can be viewed as both political and trivial. A proverb in the book goes: ‘Everything that rhymes is true!’. But in Borti Natta you find both truth and lies, wisdom and madness. The poems about morning, day, evening and night have a noticeable connection to the east side of Oslo, where both people and motifs reappear throughout the book. [It’s] a fun but thought-provoking poetry collection about life in all its wonderful, mad glory.”

Established in 1948, the prize is awarded annually by the Norwegian Children’s Book Institute for the year’s best children’s and young adult literature. The winner will be announced on March 21st, 2025.