Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS was founded in 1925. It was established when a group of Norwegian investors "bought home" the works of "
The Four Greats" and
Knut Hamsun, which had previously been published by the Danish publishing house
Gyldendal.
Harald Grieg had a central role in this operation and became the new company's director, and Hamsun, who had been awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature in
1920, provided significant capital and became its largest shareholder. The company publishes
fiction,
non-fiction,
school books and
children books. Gyldendal owns 50% of
Kunnskapsforlaget, along with
Aschehoug, which publishes
encyclopedias,
dictionaries and other reference books, including the
Store norske leksikon. Gyldendal also publishes the
literary magazine Vinduet. The company is organised as a division of
Gyldendal ASA, a
holding company which is listed on the
Oslo Stock Exchange. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS consists of the following four divisions: Gyldendal Litteratur, Gyldendal Undervisning, Gyldendal Akademisk and Gyldendal Rettsdata. ==Gyldendal ASA==