NORLA, Norwegian authors and literary agents to attend Shanghai Children’s Book Fair

NORLA will once again take part in the book fair in Shanghai, which in its entirety is dedicated to literature for children and young people. Last year’s attendance resulted in massive interest in Norwegian authors and books and also many foreign right sales (read more). This year, author and illustrator Anna Fiske will present her books at the fair, and continue on a launch tour to Beijing and Guangzhou.
See a video interview with Anna Fiske.

Author Endre Lund Eriksen is also back in China this year. In 2013, his cartoon series about the Monsters in Dunderly (illustrated by Endre Skandfer) was published in Chinese book version by Tsinghua University Publishing House and became a major success (read more here). And now, the animation of the Dunderly-series will be shared with Chinese children and parents.

Read more about the Norwegian events in China here.

Would like to schedule a meeting with NORLA at our stand 2D0? Please contact us.

The following Norwegian literary agents will participate at this year’s fair, two of which have received a stipend from NORLA:
Evy Tillman Hegdal from Oslo Literary Agency
Eirin Hagen from Hagen Agency
Silje Mella from Cappelen Damm Agency
Svein Størksen from Magikon Publishing hose

See NORLA’s selection of titles presented at this year’s book fair in Chinese and English.

You may find our 2015-selection of Norwegian titles in our Chinese (and English) information material here.

See also Norwegian books recently published in Chinese through NORLA’s translation subsidies here.

Upcoming activities

February 5-February 8

Oslo and Bergen, Norway

German journalists to Oslo and Bergen

We look forward to welcoming fourteen German journalists to Norway as a prelude to the Norwegian Guest of Honour program at the Leipziger Buchmesse (March 27–30). The press trip consists of two days in Oslo and two in Bergen, where participants will meet many Norwegian authors and take part in the LitFest Bergen festival. The journalists will also have the opportunity to meet literary agents and other key players in the book industry, as well as representatives from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

February 15

Application deadline: Translation grants for Norwegian contemporary drama

The Writers’ Guild of Norway (in Norwegian: Dramatikerforbundet) may award grants for the translation of Norwegian dramatic works to other languages. The primary purpose of the grant scheme is to contribute to the presentation/production of Norwegian drama abroad.