Kjartan Fløgstad, Gabi Gleichmann and Kirsti Baggethun to Chile

The international Chilean book fair, Feria Internacional del Libro de Santiago, this year focuses on the Nordic countries, Nórdicos en FILSA. The fair takes place 22 October + 8. November.

Norwegian authors Kjartan Fløgstad and Gabi Gleichmann take part, as well as Kirsti Baggethun, author and translator of Norwegian literature into Spanish. Also musicians Christina Sandsengen, Moddi and Terje Evensen are part of the rich festival program which also includes several art exhibitions, films etc.

Meet the authors/translator in the following events:

30 October 20:30
Kirsti Baggethun
Karl Ove Knausgård: dos miradas de su obra

1 November 16:00
Gabi Gleichmann
El elixir de la inmortalidad

3 November, 18:30
Kjartan Fløgstad and Gabi Gleichmann
Buscando las raíces culturales

3 November, 20:00
Kirsti Baggethun
Las mujeres en la obra de Ibsen

8 November 16:30
Kjartan Fløgstad
Desde el realismo ártico hasta Pablo Neruda

See more Norwegian events – including concerts, films, art exhibitons here.

Read more about all Norwegian participants here (in Spanish) here.

See the list of Kirsti Baggethun’s many translations from Norwegian into Spanish here.

See the full festival program.

Upcoming activities

December 20-January 5 2025

Holiday hours at NORLA

At NORLA we will close for the Christmas holiday Thursday afternoon, December 19.
The office will reopen on Monday, January 6.

We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

January 15 2025

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.

February 1 2025

Application deadline: Translation subsidy and Production subsidy

Please note that there are new application deadlines in 2025, with three deadlines in total, for Norwegian books in all genres:
1 February, 1 June and 1 October.