Summer holidays at NORLA
NORLA’s offices are closed in July for our summer holidays.
We would like to thank you all for a pleasant collaboration so far this year.
We will be back in the office on Monday, 4 August.
September 26-September 27 2015
Norway
Lars Mytting in the UK
Meet Lars Mytting, the author of one of the greatest non-fiction publishing successes in Scandinavia ever: the non-fiction book Norwegian Wood (original title: Hel ved, 2011). In 15 months, over 200 000 copies of the book were sold in Norway and Sweden. And foreign rights are sold to several countries.
Saturday 26 September:
Meet Mytting at Wigtown Book Festival at 3pm.
See all details here.
Sunday 27 September:
Meet Mytting at Forum Books in Corbridge at 4pm.
See all details here.
Signed books will be available from Toppings Bookshop in Ely and Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge from Monday onwards.
Read more about the Lars Mytting, Norwegian Wood and the UK-events here.
The book is translated from the Norwegian by Robert Ferguson, and published by MacLehose Press through translation subsidy from NORLA.
Read more about the book here.
Upcoming activities
July 1-August 3
August 1
Application deadline: Author and lecturer visits to institutions of higher learning abroad
NORLA administrates the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ scheme for travel grants for authors and lecturers who will visit institutions of higher learning abroad where instruction is given in the Norwegian language.
September 1
Application deadline: Sample translation of Norwegian literature
Publishers, agents and translators abroad and in Norway can apply to NORLA for subsidies for sample translations.
Read more here.