Between February 28 and March 2, the Crown Prince couple will be making an official visit to Great Britain. In this regard, NORLA along with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London will be hosting a literary event in residence on Wednesday, March 1, with the authors Lars Mytting, Siri Helle and Karl Ove Knausgård, moderated by bookseller Nic Bottomley.
For invited British booksellers, translators and literary players.
Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit. Photo: Jørgen Gomnæs/Det kongelige hoff
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.