Meet Håkon Øvreås at the Internationales Literaturfestival in Berlin.
Håkon Øvreås is a poet and the author of the award-winning children’s book BRUNE (Brown), illustrated by Øyvind Torseter.
At the festival’s International Children’s and Young Adult Literature section BRUNE will be presented as a collection of aesthetically remarkable picture books
seen as examples of how innovative and challenging contemporary children’s books can be.
“Super-Bruno” is translated from the Norwegian by Angelika Kutsch, and published by Hanser Verlag through subsidy from NORLA.
Øvreås will be taking part in several events during the children’s festival: September 7, 8, 9 and 11.
He will also be taking part in a poetry night, September 9.
Read more about Håkon Øvreås and see all event details.
Eight international non-fiction editors will visit Norway September 17 – 20 to participate in NORLA’s fellowship program in Oslo and Stavanger. On Wednesday, September 18th, they will meet with non-fiction editors and authors in Oslo. On Thursday, September 19th, the group will travel to Stavanger to attend the literature festival Kapittel and to meet authors, as well as explore the city and enjoy a boat tour on Lysefjorden.
The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Athens will be hosting a book trade meeting for Greek editors of children’s and young adult literature on Wednesday, September 18th. NORLA will participate digitally with a 30-minute introduction on Norwegian children’s and young adult literature, selected titles, and NORLA’s work.
The planning for Norway as Guest of Honour at the Leipziger Buchmesse is well underway. During the literature festival Kapittel in Stavanger from September 19th to 22nd, the German-Norwegian program series titled Auf dem Weg nach Leipzig (On the Way to Leipzig) will be presented. This is a festival within a festival, organized by Kapittel in collaboration with the Norwegian-German Willy Brandt Foundation, the Goethe-Institut, and NORLA.
The aim is to introduce German literature to Norwegian readers and foster discussions about literature and current societal issues in Norway and Germany/Switzerland/Austria through meetings between Norwegian and German authors. In the author conversations, German-speaking authors will meet their Norwegian colleagues, such as Judith Hermann / Monika Isakstuen, Christoph Ransmayr / Erik Fosnes Hansen, and Simon Strauss / Simon Stranger.
The complete program will be continuously updated here