Previous activities

JLF claims to be the world’s largest free literature festival, with an overwhelming number of writers, participants and audiences from India and the rest of the world. This year, the entire festival will be arranged digitally. A side program at the literature festival is the industry meeting Jaipur BookMark, where publishers and booksellers from all over India and other countries meet to discuss industry issues, present and sell books, etc. This year, NORLA will lead a panel on children’s literature entitled Imagine: The Child’s World.

NORLA collaborates with Livres Canada Books in hosting meetings between Norwegian and Canadian acquisition editors:
Friday February 12, the focus will be on fiction.

The meetings are organized in cooperation with the Norwegian embassy in Ottawa.

NORLA collaborates with Livres Canada Books in hosting meetings between Norwegian and Canadian acquisition editors:
Thursday Februrary 11 the focus will be on literature for children and young adults.

The meetings are organized in cooperation with the Norwegian embassy in Ottawa.

Read more about the translation subsidy for Norwegian non-fiction here.

Foreign publishers may also apply for production subsidies for the publication of Norwegian non-fiction containing a large number of illustrations or with exceptionally demanding technical production requirements.
Read more about the scheme here.

NORLA’s staff will be attending a seminar with our Nordic colleagues, January 13-14.
The employees at the Nordic literary offices meet annually. This year the meeting should have taken place in Copenhagen, Denmark, but it will instead be held digitally.

We look forward to exchanging experiences and future plans with our colleagues!

At NORLA we will close for the Christmas holiday Thursday afternoon, December 17.
The office will reopen on Monday, January 4.

Read our Director Margit Walsø’s Christmas Greetings here!

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

We have the pleasure of hosting two digital book trade meetings in Russia on the same say:

One focusing on on children’s and young adults’ literature, in which NORLA’s selected title films will be screened. There will also be a presentation by author Sigrid Agnete Hansen.

The one meeting with a focus on fiction, where NORLA’s selected title films will be screened. In addition, there will be a presentation by author Asle Skredderberget.

Both meetings will take place on Zoom and are organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Moscow.

Meeting of NORLA’s committee of experts for fiction (for the consideration of applications for translation subsidies with deadline 15 November).

Read more about the translation subsidy here.

Translator’s webinar with English translators, with the presentation of new fiction titles and screening of NORLA’s selected title films.
Participants will also have a workshop on translating an excerpt from Olaug Nilssen’s critically acclaimed and award-nominated novel The One Needful Thing (original title: Yt etter evne, få etter behov) with the author present.
Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in
London.

This year there will be a digital Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse. Here there will be screening of NORLA’s selected title films of books for children and young adults.
The screenings are arranged in collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Paris.

In connection with the book fair in Rome, Libri Più Liberi, Italian publishers are invited to take part in a webinar.
The Italy-based literary agent Trude Kolaas, Immaterial Agents, will give an introduction to Norwegian literature and the book industry. And author Olaug Nilssen will participate in a conversation with her agent Gina Winje, Winje Agency.
There will also be an introduction to NORLA’s work and also possible to speed date Norwegian literary agents.

Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Rome.

Digital author presentations by Trude Marstein and Morten Strøksnes at the book fair Non/Fiction in Moscow.

Trude Marstein, Dec 4, at 10:00 Norwegian time/12:00 Russian time
Morten Strøksnes, Dec 6, at 10:00 Norwegian time/12:00 Russian time

Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Moscow.

Digital book trade meeting with a focus on fiction with screening of NORLA’s selected title films. Speed dating with Norwegian agents.
Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Madrid.

Webinar focusing on children’s and young adults’ literature. NORLA’s selected title films will be screened. There will also be a presentation by author Veronica Salinas and publisher/agent Svein Størksen.
Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Buenos Aires.

Collaboration with Livres Canada Books on meetings between Norwegian and Canadian acquisition editors. Focus on non-fiction.
Organized in cooperation with the Norwegian embassy in Ottawa.