Norway is Guest of Honour at Frankfurter Buchmesse!

Finally, the book fair is here! We look immensely forward to let participants from all over the world experience the best of literature and culture from Norway!
The Norwegian Guest of Honour project is Norway’s largest cultural export project ever.

As usual, NORLA will be present at the Norwegian collective stand, 5.0 A53, where we – in meetings – will present our selected titles of the autumn. Please contact us should you wish to book a meeting.

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We are pleased to offer a rich and diverse Guest of Honour program:

See the complete programme day by day here

*The program taking place in the Guest of Honour Pavilion at Frankfurter Buchmesse, both main stage and stage 2 available as PDF here

*See also Frankfurter Buchmesse’s own event calendar

*The cultural program. Read more

*Authors Erika Fatland and Karl Ove Knausgård will be Norway’s literary speakers at the Opening Ceremony of the Frankfurter Buchmesse.

*Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit will arrive in Frankfurt by a literary train, accompanied by Norwegian authors. The literary train is made in collaboration with Deutsche Bahn.

And there’s much, much, more! Such as:

Wednesday, October 16, we will host a morning mingle for translators of Norwegian literature, at the Guest of Honour Pavilion (Forum, Level 1).

Wednesday, October 16, we will announce the winner of NORLA’s Translator’s Award 2019.
Welcome to the main stage of the Guest of Honour Pavilion (Forum, Level 1) at 14.45.
Read more about the award here.

Wedneday, October 17, we invite German speaking book sellers and journalists to a reception.
Welcome to the Guest of Honour Pavilion (Forum, Level 1), at 17-19.

Thursday, October 17, we invite international and Norwegian guests to a reception.
Welcome to the Guest of Honour Pavilion (Forum, Level 1), at 17-19.

Read more about the Guest of Honour Pavilion here

We look forward to welcoming old and new contacts to Frankfurt!

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.