Jørgen Lorentzen, professor of Gender Studies, will present his book “The History of Fatherhood in Norway” for a Serbian audience, at an event hosted by Scandinavian Corner.
Jørgen Lorentzen claims to be the only scholar who is focusing on men’s studies in Norway, possibly in all of Europe.
Read more about Lorentzen’s book “The History of Fatherhood in Norway, 1850-2012” here.
The book is published in English by Palgrave Macmillan with translation subsidy from NORLA.
Thursday 19 November, 18.00
Venue:
Skandinavski kutak – Scandinavian Corner
6a, Kapetan Misina
11000 Belgrade
Serbia
The event will be held in English.
Read more (in both Serbian and English) here.
Photo: Jørgen Lorentzen recently visited Hungary for the Scandinavian Women’s Festival in Budapest, where he participated at a very successful roundtable discussion themed “New role of men”, together with Miklós Hadas, professor at Corvinus University.
In collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London, NORLA is hosting a special industry event highlighting contemporary Norwegian children’s and young adult literature on November 5.
The event will take place at the Norwegian Ambassador’s Residence.
Norway is Guest of Honour at this year’s Les Boréales festival in Normandy, taking place from 12–22 November.
A strong line-up of Norwegian authors will take part in the festival: Ingeborg Arvola, Martin Baldysz, Brit Bildøen, Thomas Enger, Jørn Lier Horst, Oliver Lovrenski, Aslak Nore, Lars Ramslie and Maria Navarro Skaranger.
During the festival, NORLA will also organise a translation seminar for students at the University of Caen on 17 November. The seminar will have a special focus on Brit Bildøen’s Gult farevarsel (Yellow Warning, Vigilance orange). Bildøen and her French translator Marina Heide will take part in the seminar, which is organized in close cooperation with the University.
The Norwegian Embassy in Paris is a partner in Norway’s Guest of Honour programme.
NORLA will take part in this year’s China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair with its own stand.
The fair will also feature the illustration exhibition first presented at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in spring 2026, when Norway was Guest of Honour. This brings the initiative showcasing Norwegian children’s and young adult literature and illustration to a new international audience.