Anette Storeide This paper provides a micro-analytical study of the Nazification of Norwegian cultural politics based on a narrative and book-historical analysis of the work published by the Norwegian author Frithjof Sælen during the German occupation of Norway (1940-45). Whereas his first book (published in November 1941) was banned by the Nazi authorities after one month, his second book (published in December 1942) escaped both censorship and prohibition, but Sælen was questioned by the Gestapo and strongly warned against writing further books. Based on the analysis of Sælen’s work, the paper also aims to discuss both the nature of the attempted Nazification of Norwegian literature as well as the situation of Norwegian authors during the German occupation.