New and Old Voices to Japan

NORLA will be hosting several events in Japan, in cooperation with the Norwegian embassy in Tokyo, and the universities of Osaka.
Two participants from our New Voices program, Linn Strømsborg and Monica Isakstuen, will be taking part in addition to translators Anne Lande Peters and NORLA’s co-workers Oliver Møystad and Dina Roll-Hansen. The events in Japan are following up NORLA’s activities in Tokyo in 2016.

Friday, November 9:
We will visit the University of Osaka and hold presentations for about 60 students of Scandinavian wanting to learn about Norwegian concepts of colour – and about Norwegian literature.

Saturday and Sunday, November 10-11:
We are holding a day-long seminar for Japanese translators of Norwegian, which 15 translators have signed up for.
The low birth rate in Japan makes Scandinavian gender-equality politics of great interest, and on Sunday, November 11, we will attend a seminar on gender equality and Norwegian family policy at the University of Kyoto. The seminar will use Ibsen’s Little Eyolf, and the books of Monica Isakstuen and Linn Strømsborg as a starting point.

Tuesday, November 13:
We will meet publishers and other contacts at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo. For this event there are 23 publishers and editors signed up! Later in the day NORLA will participate in a seminar about Ibsen, where Norwegian to Japanese-translator Anne Lande Peters will also talk about Lille Eyolf.

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Linn Strømsborg, presentation at the Cappelen Damm Agency’s website
Monica Isakstuen, presentation at the Oslo Literary Agency’s website
Anne Lande Peters, who is NORLA’s Translator of the Month for November

See the covers of Norwegian books recently published in Japanese through NORLA’s translation subsidies on our Flickr-profile.

Photos, from the left:
Anne Lande Peters, Linn Strømsborg (photo: Heidi Furre) og Monica Isakstuen (photo: Paal Audestad).

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.