Anne Oterholm is awarded the Aschehoug Prize 2010 for her collected works. The Aschehoug Prize consists of NOK 100 000 and the sculpture 'Eternal Life' by the renowned Norwegian sculptor Ørnulf Bast.

Ingrid Storholmen is awarded the Hunger Prize 2010. The Prize is granted by Gyldendal publishing house to a young, eminent author.
Storholmen's latest book Chernobyl Stories (2009) has received excellent reviews and was nominated for the Brage Award, the Norwegian Critics' Prize and the Youth Critics' Prize. More information on the author here.

Per Petterson's latest novel I Curse the River of Time receives rave reviews both in the U.S. and the UK. Major newspapers like The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The New York Times and The Washington Post all have starred reviews of the novel.

The International Ibsen Award 2010 is given to the Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse. The award will be presented on 10 September during the Ibsen Festival at the National Theatre in Oslo. Read the jury's statement here

Mary Parr's critically acclaimed first novel "Waffle Heart" is awarded the Prix Sorcières for best children's novel 2010. The book is translated into French by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud, and foreign rights are so far sold to 7 countries. More information about the Prize here.

Jo Nesbø, one of Europe’s leading crime writers, has just published 'The Snowman' to brilliant reviews in the UK press. This is Nesbø’s fifth internationally acclaimed novel featuring Inspector Harry Hole to be translated into English by Don Bartlett. Read more here

Tomas Espedal is awarded The Gyldendal Prize 2009 for his collected works, and in particular his latest novel 'Against Art'.
The book has been awarded the Norwegian Critic's Prize and is nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. More about the book here

Tom Egeland has been awarded the Golden revolver, the Norwegian prize for best literary detective work in 2009 for his book 'Gospel of Lucifer'. Read more here

Per Petterson's novel 'Out Stealing Horses' is awarded the Rashid Bin Hameed Cultural Award for best translated novel 2009 in the Arab emirate of Ajman. The book is translated by Sukaina Ibrahim and published by Dar Al-Muna, in collaboration with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation.

Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold and Eivind Hofstad Evjemo are awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' First Writer's Award 2009. Skomsvold receives the award for her novel 'The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am' (Oktober), while Evjemo receives the award for his novel 'Wake Me if I Fall Asleep' (Cappelen Damm). Read more about Skomsvold's book here, and Evjemo's book here.

Tomas Espedal and Maria Parr are awarded The Norwegian Critics' Prize 2009. Espedal for his novel Agains art, which is so far sold to four countries, and Parr for her children's book Tonje Glimmerdal, which is sold to six countries. More on Espedal's book here, and Parr's book here.

The American-Scandinavian Foundation has awarded the 30th annual ASF Translation Prize to Tara F. Chace from Seattle for her translation of a collection of short stories by Norwegian author Nicolai Houm, All Children are Made of Fire (Alle barn er laget av ild). More about the prize here.

The International Ibsen Scholarships were initiated by the Norwegian government and will be handed out for the third time in 2010. Scholarship funds amount to NOK 1.000.000,- (approx. Euro 125.000,-/US Dollars 150.000,-) will be awarded to Ibsen-related projects world wide. The application deadline is April 15th 2010, see more info and application form here

The first three volumes of Karl Ove Knausgård's six-novel project My Struggle have been chosen as Book of the Year by the readers of the renowned Norwegian magazine Morgenbladet. This is the second prize for this ambitious project.

Anne B. Ragde’s acclaimed novel Berlin Poplars was published in France last autumn and has received excellent reviews by French critics.

Translation is all around us; it’s something we just don’t usually think about. For three whole days focus will be placed firmly on translation in all its forms. Norway’s House of Literature will be filled from cellar to garret with translation, translators and translations.

Gunnar Staalesen's fourth crime novel has recently been published in the UK, and British critics and readers like what they find in The Consorts of Death.

Per Petterson's critically acclaimed and prize winning novel Out Stealing Horses is ranked as no. 68 of the 100 best books the last decade by the prestigous British newspaper The Times, and is called "a superb Scandinavian noir". The book is so far sold to 45 languages.

Petterson receives the prize for the novel I Curse the River of Time.

Stian Hole picture book Garmann's Street is awarded the 2009 childrens' literature prize by the Nordic Association of School Librarians. The book is so far sold to six countries.

Maria Parr's début novel, Waffle Hearts (Vaffelhjarte, 2005) is nominated for the French Prix Tam Tam. The book is sold to six countries so far and the French translation is by Jean Baptiste Coursaud.

The prize is given to young talented European writers and aims to “put the spotlight on the creativity and diverse wealth of Europe’s contemporary literature, to promote more circulation of literature within Europe and encourage greater interest in non-national literary works”. Tiller is one of 12 prize winners.

The Independent's reviewer praises the author's
"superb knack of bringing characters to life with a few broad strokes, the prose flows deceptively easily, with a true master's witty choice of words." Read the review in full here.

Kjartan Fløgstad’s novel Grand Manila was recently published in France and the reviews were wonderful and enthusiastic. French critics are beside themselves with joy over Fløgstad’s smooth transitions between the local and the global, the individual and the international.

says The Independent's Boyd Tonkin on Norwegian literature in Britain, and NORLA. Read more

Kjell Askildsen is awarded the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2009.

Gabriele Haefs and Jean-Baptiste Coursaud received The NBU (Norwegian Writers for Children) prize on October 25. They have both been working persistently promoting Norwegian children's literature in Germany and France respectively.

NORLA will be attending the Göteborg Book Fair in Sweden September 23 - 26. Please contact us prior to the fair if you would like to make an appointment. More info on the fair here.

NORLA will attend this autumn's book fairs and literary festivals in Beijing, Stavanger, Gothenburg, Frankfurt and Moscow. NORLA will also be (co)arranging seminars for translators, students (of Norwegian) and publishers. For details see below

The forthcoming application deadlines for NORLA's translation subsidy are:

October 1st for non-tiction titles
December 1st for fiction titles

More information is to be found under 'Application Procedure' in the left-hand margin, or by clicking here.

We look forward to receiving your application.

NORLA attended, for the first time, the Beijing International Book Fair, from August 30 - September 1.
The Fair's website is found here.

NORLA has received an overwhelming number of applications for translation grants for the first three application deadlines up until June. See lists below for full details of the 151 grants given for translation of Norwegian titles into 39 different languages.

Translation grants pr June 2010, fiction and non-fiction 86.50 kB

Translation grants, non-fiction 2010 (1/3) 24.50 kB

Translation grants, non-fiction 2010 (2/3) 22.50 kB

Translation grants, fiction 2010 (1/3) 36.50 kB

NORLA's English brochure on Norwegian literature for children and young adults is available on our website, please click here. You may also download a brochure containing two articles on Norwegian fiction and non-fiction from our site. Choose between the Spanish, Russian, French and English version here.

The German market is one of the most important markets for Norwegian literature, and a large number of Norwegian books are each year published in German. June 15 - 17 NORLA arranged a comprehensive translation and publishing seminar for invited participants at the Literaturhaus in Munich. Three Norwegian authors participated: Thomas Hylland-Eriksen, Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold and Yngve Frøyen.

More information (in Spanish) to be found here

During Norway's biggest Festival of Literature in Lillehammer, May 25 - 30, NORLA hosted two seminars for invited participants. First a translation seminar/workshop for lullabies, where some of the translations made during the workshop was performed by singer Unni Løvlid at a concert for invited guests.

NORLA also arranged an international seminar for publishers of children's books under the heading "The Power of Children's Literature". In cooperation with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NORLA had invited to Lillehammer publishers of children's literature from Palestine, India, Poland, and from Lebanon, France, Switzerland and Turkey to discuss the power and potential of children's literature all around the world.

More information on the Norwegian Festival of Literature in Lillehammer here

On May 6th NORLA arranged an International Biography Seminar in Oslo for invited editors of non-fiction, under the headline "How is it possible to make international characters of national icons?". The seminar was arranged in cooperation with the Biographical Society of Norway, Norwegian publishers and the Norwegian Association of Non-Fiction Writers and Translators. Norwegian authors of biographies participated, along with Norwegian non-fiction editors and publishers.

This year's Pen World Voices Festival was held in New York from April 26 to May 2. About 150 authors from 40 countries were invited to read the texts and discuss various topics at this year's festival. Norwegian participants were Jostein Gaarder and Karl Ove Knausgård. See the complete programme here, read more on Gaarder here, and Knausgård here.

During the Russian Week at the House of Literature in Oslo (April 19 – 24) NORLA arranged a Norwegian-Russian translator’s discussion (held in Norwegian) headed "Do we need Russian literature translated into Norwegian when a lot of Norwegian Literature is already translated into Russian?"

Due to reduced flight activity in Northern Europe NORLA was regrettably unable to attend the London Book Fair in London, April 19 - 21. Information about NORLA was available at the Norwegian publishers' association's stand No. W 435. For more information about the fair, click here.

The Norwegian Embassy in Paris and NORLA arranged a translator’s seminar for invited translators and students in Paris April 10 – 11. The seminar was held in collaboration with Université de Paris IV Sorbonne, and took place at the Musée des Arts et Métiers.
The authors Helene Uri and Vidar Sundstøl both have novels that are in the process of being translated into French. They met their translators and talked about the on-going process. Literary critic Marta Norheim conveyed tendencies in Norwegian literature 2000 - 2010.

Gina Winje and Oliver Møystad from NORLA was present at this year's Salon du Livre in Paris. The Nordic countries are guests of honour at the 2011 fair, and exhibited this year at a joint Nordic stand, No. X 68. More information on the book fair here.

Dina Roll-Hansen from NORLA participated at the Bologna Children's Book Fair from Tuesday 23rd to Friday 26th March, at the Collective Nordic Stand, hall 30 c 18. For more information about the fair, click here.

During the festival Translated Days at the House of Literature in Oslo (March 11 - 13) NORLA arranged a meeting (held in Norwegian) between the author Johan Harstad and four of his translators.

Mirjam Kristensen, Roy Jacobsen and Sverre Henmo will be visiting Germany in the period of March 18-21 to launch German editions of their books.
They will visit the Book Fair in Leipzig and read from their books at the fair, at differents schools and around town. Read more about the fair and see the programme here.

Gina Winje and Oliver Møystad from NORLA visited Egypt and the Cairo International Bookfair January 28-31. They met with publishers and took part in the launch of the Arabic translation of Knut Hamsun's novel Hunger, marking the 150th anniversary of Hamsun's birth.

2009 resulted in several all time high's for NORLA; Never before have we received - and granted - as many applications for translation subsidy as we did last year.

NORLA's 2009 grants of translation subsidies 68.00 kB

2009 also saw the publication of no less than 235 Norwegian books translated into 45 different languages with translation subsidy from NORLA. See the complete list of (original) titles here

Translations published in 2009 with grants from NORLA 67.50 kB

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