From 10.-16. November 2018 the twenty-seventh Stadt Land Buch Festival will take place in Berlin and Brandenburg. This year’s guest: The Nordic countries!
The eight Norwegian names in this year’s program are (top row, from the left): authors Gard Sveen, Øyvind Torseter, Ylva Østby and Hilde Østby, Erling Kagge (bottom row, from the left): Ulrik Farestad, architect Reiulf Ramstad and author Ketil Bjørnstad.
Read more about the different events and authors below (in German):
Gard Sveen
Øyvind Torseter
Ylva Østby og Hilde Østby
Ulrik Farestad
Erling Kagge
Reiulf Ramstad
Ketil Bjørnstad.
There will also be an event about Merethe Lindstrøm’s book, although the author herself is sadly unable to take part. Read more.
Visit the Stadt Land Buch Festival’s website (in German only).
Find the event on your Norway2019 website
The Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University in Belgrade is organizing an exhibition of Nordic children’s and YA literature translated into Serbian from October 2nd to 8th. They are hosting several smaller events in connection with the exhibition, including panel discussions, book launches, and lectures for students. One of the collaborators is the Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade.
NORLA, in collaboration with the Scandinavian Center at Tbilisi State University (TSU), is organizing a translator’s seminar for students and translators in Tbilisi.
On the first day, students will receive an introduction to Norwegian literature and participate in a workshop translating a text from Norwegian to Georgian. Elisabeth Beanca Halvorsen will participate as an author from Norway.
On day two, we will focus on collaborative translation and translation from Georgian to Norwegian. This part of the seminar is organized in collaboration with the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators (Norsk Oversetterforening).
Meeting of NORLA’s expert committee for fiction, for the consideration of applications for translation subsidies with deadline 1 August.