– Former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland is entangled in a political scandal over cancer treatments paid for by the Norwegian state, which she was not entitled to having previously changed her residency abroad.[17]
The OBX Index drops 9.71%, the third largest drop ever in one day.[11]
Tromsø's bid to become host city to the 2018 Winter Olympics is cancelled when the sports board of Norwegian Confederation of Sports votes 9 against 3 to withdraw the application for government financial guarantee.[20]
Bangladeshi-Norwegian parliamentarian for the Labour PartySaera Khan withdraws her candidacy for next year's elections when it is revealed that she has spent large sums using her parliament paid-for mobile phone to call psychic hotlines and then consistently lied to cover up the fact.[22]
Great controversy erupts when Holocaust denier and historian David Irving is invited to the 2009 Norwegian Festival of Literature at Lillehammer, to discuss his concept of truth[24], ending in Irving's invitation being withdrawn.[25] Author Stig Sæterbakken resigns as the festival's content director in protest over the decision.[26]
^ Jan Petter Blom, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Halvard Vik: «Marianne Gullestad». Obituary in Aftenposten, kultur pages 14, 17 March 2008. See also nb:Marianne Gullestad