From January 14-18th, the Literature Go Global group and seven Norwegian literary agencies will be in New York City as part of the competence program for Literature Go Global, where they will participate in an extensive program, along with US agents, scouts, publishers, bookstores and other industry figures, for a unique insight into the US book market.
Literature Go Global is a collaboration between the Ministry of Culture, Innovation Norway and NORLA. The New York program is organised in collaboration with the Frankfurt Book Fair’s New York office.
Read more:
About the Literature Go Global-program here.
About Frankfurt Book Fair New York Inc. here.
(Photo: Stine Lunde, Innovation Norway).
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.
NORLA will take part in this year’s China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair with its own stand.
The fair will also feature the illustration exhibition first presented at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in spring 2026, when Norway was Guest of Honour. This brings the initiative showcasing Norwegian children’s and young adult literature and illustration to a new international audience.