This year's festival will bring writers, poets, thinkers, politicians, scientists and historians from 45 different countries to debate, discuss, argue and inspire from 15 - 31 August in the settings of Charlotte Square in the historic heart of Edinburgh, the world's first UNESCO City of Literature.
Over 200,000 visitors will come to join the debate, meet the authors, browse the bookshops or just enjoy an ice cream in the vibrant garden setting.
To complement the main programme, there is a full children's programme with events, workshops and debates for every age from toddler to teenager.
Norwegian authors present at this year's festival include:
Karl O. Knausgaard and Marcel Moring 'Writers of the World', Monday 24 August 7.30 - 8.30 pm
Two ambitiously original pieces of storytelling which draw upon myth, history and religion for their inspiration. Karl O. Knausgaard's novel is a wonderful retelling of key tales from the Bible inspired by one boy's vision of angels. Marcel Moring's 'In a Dark Wood' is a modern re-imagining of Dante's Inferno with a small town in the Netherlands being one man's vision of Hell.
Lars Saabye Christensen and Patrick Neate 'Fine Fiction', Tuesday 25 August 8.30 - 9.30 pm
A dazzling double bill of fiction. Leading writer Lars Saabye Christensen returns to the festival with 'Beatles', the arresting account of a generation, voted the best Norwegian novel of the past twenty five years. Patrick Neate, author of the acclaimed novels 'Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko' and 'Twelve Bar Blues', and creator of BookSlam in London, returns with his new novel Jerusalem.
Gunnar Staalesen and Andrea Maria Schenkel 'Crime Fiction', Thursday 27 August 7.30 - 8.30 pm
Two of the best European crime writers come together. Andrea Maria Schenkel's 'Ice Cold', a phenomenal success in Germany, concerns the brutal murders of young women in Munich in the 1930s. Norwegian Gunnar Staalesen's 'The Consorts of Death' is the thirteenth novel in his highly successful series featuring Bergen private eye Varg Veum.
For more information and tickets, please log on the Edinburgh International Book Festival website.