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).
NORLA will be at The Nordic Common Stand at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. You’ll find us in Hall 3.1, stand B70.
The stand will also feature a new catalogue presenting a selection of new books from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland available in German translation.
Nordic Reception: Thursday, 8 October, 17:00–18:30 at The Nordic Stand.
In collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London, NORLA is hosting a special industry event highlighting contemporary Norwegian children’s and young adult literature on November 5.
The event will take place at the Norwegian Ambassador’s Residence.
Norway is Guest of Honour at this year’s Les Boréales festival in Normandy, taking place from 12–22 November.
A strong line-up of Norwegian authors will take part in the festival: Ingeborg Arvola, Martin Baldysz, Brit Bildøen, Thomas Enger, Jørn Lier Horst, Oliver Lovrenski, Aslak Nore, Lars Ramslie and Maria Navarro Skaranger.
During the festival, NORLA will also organise a translation seminar for students at the University of Caen on 17 November. The seminar will have a special focus on Brit Bildøen’s Gult farevarsel (Yellow Warning, Vigilance orange). Bildøen and her French translator Marina Heide will take part in the seminar, which is organized in close cooperation with the University.
The Norwegian Embassy in Paris is a partner in Norway’s Guest of Honour programme.