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Banned and restricted books in Norway
9 titles have been banned or restricted in Norway, recorded across 9 dated, source-cited events, most often for sexual content.
Titles
9
Ban events
9
Top reason
Sexual content
Decades active
6
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence | 1928 | 1 |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | 1 |
| Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 1934 | 1 |
| The Story of O | Pauline Réage | 1954 | 1 |
| Fra Kristiania-Bohêmen | Hans Jæger | 1885 | 1 |
| The Song of the Red Ruby | Agnar Mykle | 1956 | 1 |
| Snorri the Seal | Frithjof Sælen | 1941 | 1 |
| Uten en tråd | Jens Bjørneboe | 1966 | 1 |
| Albertine | Christian Krohg | 1886 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Sexual content
- 4
- Obscenity
- 3
- Political content
- 1
- Immorality
- 1
By decade
1880s2
1920s1
1930s1
1940s1
1950s3
1960s1
Documented bans
All 9 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
Uten en tråd1967
Lolita1956
The Song of the Red Ruby1956
The Story of O1954
Snorri the Seal1941
Tropic of Cancer1934
Lady Chatterley's Lover1928
Albertine1886
Fra Kristiania-Bohêmen1885
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