NORLA to attend Frankfurt Book Fair

NORLA will be very active at the book fair in Frankfurt 2017, in that only two years remain before Norway will be Guest of Honour.

We will have a particular focus on follow-up of the many publisher visits to Norway we received last spring and on supporting Norwegian publishers and agents in their work of selling Norwegian books to foreign publishers. This applies in particular to the German publishers in the period leading up to 2019. NORLA will of course be represented at the Norwegian book trade’s joint stand in hall 5.0, A53, where we will also present the autumn’s focus titles.

We are simultaneously preparing the culture programme for the autumn of 2019 and will use the opportunity to continue our conversations with Frankfurt’s large museums, theatres and concert houses. We will also be accompanied by writers’ organizations and Norwegian institutions that are interested in becoming acquainted with the book fair in Frankfurt. State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Culture, Mr. Bård Folke Fredriksen, and State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Laila Bokhari plan to attend the book fair on the 11th October.
Margit Walsø and Halldor Gudmundsson will give the first presentation of the Norwegian Guest of Honour project at the book fair’s Business Club and participate in a seminar in which different Guest of Honour nations will present their literature.

We are very much looking forward to greeting contacts both old and new!

Information on this year’s Norwegian booktrade participants may be found at the Norwegian Publishing Association’s website.

Are you curious about which Norwegian books have recently been published in German through translation subsides from NORLA?
See the covers here.

Upcoming activities

November 22-November 24

Paris, France

Norwegian Literature at the Musée d’Orsay

On Friday, November 22, Margit Walsø and Andrine Pollen will introduce NORLA, along with Norwegian literature and the publishing industry, to Scandinavian Studies students at the Sorbonne University. Students will also meet authors Katrine Nedrejord and Lars Saabye Christensen, who will present themselves and their literary works. Katrine Nedrejord’s book The Sami Problem (original title: Sameproblemet ) will feature in a workshop on translation.

On Saturday, November 23, Marta Breen will deliver a lecture titled Women’s Place, followed by a discussion on ecology and minorities, between Kathrine Nedrejord and translator Marianne Ségol-Samoy, who has translated works by Nedrejord and also Jon Fosse into French.

Marianne Ségol-Samoy will also join a conversation with Gabriel Dufay, an actor, director, and Jon Fosse enthusiast, about the Nobel Prizes in Literature.

November 25

Meeting of NORLA’s expert committee for non-fiction

Meeting of NORLA’s expert committee for non-fiction, for the consideration of applications for translation subsidies with deadline 1 November.

November 26-December 4

Guadalajara, Mexico

NORLA and Norwegian participants to Mexico

From December 1-4, NORLA and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Mexico will once again be present with a stand at the Guadalajara Book Fair in Mexico, which is the world’s largest Spanish-speaking book fair.