NORLA’s activities during the Norwegian Festival of Literature in Lillehammer

For the last 23 years NORLA has held seminars for translators at Literary festival in Lillehammer This year we will host a translator seminar dedicated to adult fiction, and have invited translators to English, French, Polish and Dutch.
The translators will meet Tiril Broch Aakre, one of the authors who has participated in NORLA’s “New Voices” program. They will work on translating an excerpt from the novel “Fjällräven gul,” and discuss various challenges in the text.
In addition to attending the literature festival program, the translators, along with a group of international publishers, will see presentations by a number of current Norwegian fiction writers.

We look forward to a seminar which, we hope, will be useful in the translators’ future work!

Press visitors
During the Norwegian Festival of Literature, NORLA will host a press visit for a group of German journalists and book bloggers. Our guests will get to experience both Oslo and Lillehammer, and they will be introduced to a great number of authors.

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Visit the festival’s website.

Did you know that in 2017, the Norwegian Festival of Literature at Lillehammer was named one of the best literature festivals in the world by Penguin Random House The Writers’ Academy? Read more

And in 2017, Lillehammer was also named a creative city of literature in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
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