Stiklestad prize 2026

This year's Stiklestad Prize will be awarded on the premiere day, July 25th at 7:00 PM in the Stiklestad Amphitheater.

The prize is awarded by Verdal Municipality, and has been awarded every other year since 1971. The last winner was

former director of the Stiklestad National Cultural Center, Turid Hofstad, who received the award in 2024.

The statutes for the award state: "The Stiklestad Prize should be recognized for an effort that contributes to lifting, developing and/or updating Stiklestad. This can be done through enlivening the place in the form of various artistic contributions, through contributions to increased knowledge of the place's more than thousand-year history or by contributing to the development of Stiklestad as a dynamic democratic arena." 

Previous winners are: