This spring, NORLA’s staff look forward to attending several book fairs, events and literary festivals around the world. See detailed list below.
Feel free to contact us to schedule a meeting!
JANUARY
17-18 January – The authors Nils Nordberg and Trude Teige will along with NORLA attend the Crime Writers festival, New Dehli, India. Read more about the festival here
19-25 January – NORLA will also attend the Jaipur BookMark/Jaipur Literature festival in India.
Read more about the festival here.
And read more about Norwegian literature projects in India in recent years here. * LINK
And read about the Norwegian participation in last year’s festival here
21-23 January – NORLA will meet Nordic colleagues, Torshavn, The Faroe Islands.
The employees at the Nordic literary offices meet annually, and this year the meeting will take place in Torshavn at the Faroe Islands.
26-30 January – German-Norwegian-German translators’ seminar in Berlin.
In this unique event a group of translators working from Norwegian to German will meet with a group working from German to Norwegian in a whole week of in-depth translation work! The seminar is arranged by translators Ebba Drolshagen and Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, both well known in NORLA-circles, and Elisabeth Beanca Halvorsen, who translates from German to Norwegian.
Oliver Møystad from NORLA, who also translates from German, will be present at the seminar.
Read more about the seminar (in German) here
29 January-1 February – Norwegian comic book artists and NORLA will attend the Angouleme international comics festival, France.
Read more about the festival here
And more about the participating Norwegian artists here
FEBRUARY
1 February: Application deadline for NORLA’s translation subsidy regarding non-fiction titles
Foreign publishing houses, also in the Nordic region, may apply for translation subsidies from NORLA for the publication of Norwegian books.
Read more on how to apply here
It is now also possible to apply for production subsidies from NORLA for the publication of Norwegian non-fiction books containing a large number of illustrations and Norwegian picture books for children.
Read more about NORLA’s production subsidies here.
2-4 February – Simon Stranger and NORLA will attend the Nordic children’s book conference in Stavanger.
Read more about the conference (in Norwegian) here.
24 February – Meeting of NORLA’s committee of experts for non-fiction (for applications for translation subsidies with deadline 1.2.).
“Read more about the translation subsidy here.
MARCH
12-15 March – Norwegian authors and NORLA attend Leipziger Buchmesse, Germany.
30 March-2 April – NORLA attends children’s book fair in Bologna, Italy. Read more about the fair here.
See NORLA’s activities for the second quarter 2015 here.
NORLA will be present at this year’s Frankfurter Buchmesse. You are invited to come by and visit us at the Norwegian common stand at Hall 4.1 / C18.
We are very much looking forward to meeting contacts both old and new!
Please contact us should you like to book an appointment.
From October 24-27, NORLA will participate in the Krakow Book Fair in collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Warsaw. The book fair coincides with the Joseph Conrad Festival in Krakow. NORLA and the embassy will have a stand at the book fair, with various activities including a bookstore, book signings, Norwegian language courses, and more.
In addition, NORLA will be hosting a seminar for non-fiction publishers and Norwegian literary agents on Thursday, October 24, featuring the authors Bjørn Berge and Ingvild Holtan-Hartwig.
Authors Kjersti Anfinnsen, Karl Ove Knausgård, Maja Lunde, and Lars Saabye Christensen have been invited by their Polish publishers to participate in the book fair and/or the Conrad Festival.
Please see our Facebook-event here
Following Jon Fosse’s Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023, the Norwegian government has established a new annual initiative to honor the author—a yearly Fosse Lecture with accompanying events organized by the National Library, where a Fosse Prize for Translators, worth NOK 500,000, will also be awarded. Through this initiative, the government aims to emphasize the importance of Fosse’s authorship, both in Norway and internationally.
NORLA is responsible for nominating candidates and is now requesting suggestions for eligible candidates for the nomination process. We welcome endorsements that meet certain criteria, with a brief justification (maximum 1 page), by October 28, 2024, 12:00 (CET).