Between Tradition and Experiment: Contemporary Norwegian Children's Literature Event Conversation

Participants
Sverre Henmo
Kristin Ørjasæter
Gry Morsund
Stian Hole
Ines Galling
Ute Wegmann

Organisers
Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin
Foundation International Youth Library (Stiftung Internationale Jugendbibliothek)
Norwegian Institute for Children’s Books (Norsk barnebokinstitutt)
NORLA

This first preliminary event for Norway Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2019 will focus on children’s literature, through two conversations about storytelling in illustrated children’s books and perspectives on children’s books and markets in Norway and Germany.

The program for the evening is:

19.00: Welcome by NORLA

19.05: Storytelling through images

Participants:

Stian Hole, author and illustrator, Oslo – known for titles like Garmann’s Summer and Morkel’s Alphabet. Hole is also nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2019.

Gry Moursund, author and illustrator, Oslo – known for illustrating the picture books about the three Billy Goats, written by Bjørn F. Rørvik. She is nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2019.

19.50: Intermission

20.10: Perspectives: Books, Children, Markets – Norway and Germany

Participants:

Ines Galling is in charge of German and Scandinavian literature for children and young adults at the International Youth Library Foundation in Munich.

Sverre Henmo is head of publishing for children’s literature at the Aschehoug Publishing House in Oslo.

Kristin Ørjasæter is director and researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Children’s Books.

Moderated by Ute Wegmann, journalist, author and program host at German radio station Deutschlandfunk in Cologne.

The event will be held in German and Norwegian.

Free entrance at: Nordische Botschaften /Felleshus
Rauchstraße 1 , 10787 Berlin (see map).