Previous activities

December 4 2020
Norway

Digital children's book fair: Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse (normally held in Montreuil)

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.

December 3 2020
Norway

Digital book trade meeting in Spain

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.

December 2 2020
Norway

Webinar in Argentina

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.

December 1 2020
Norway

Digital meetings between Norwegian and Canadian acquisition editors

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.

November 24 2020
Norway

Digital book trade meeting in France

Digital book trade meeting with a focus on fiction. NORLA’s selected title films will be screened. In addition, Maria Kjos Fonn will present her authorship in a conversation with literary agent Annette Orre, Oslo Literary Agency.
Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Paris.

November 23 2020
Norway

Digital book trade meeting in Germany

Digital book trade meeting with a focus on children’s and young adults’ literature with screening of NORLA’s selected title films. Speed dating with Norwegian agents.
Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.

November 15 2020
Norway

Application deadline: Translation subsidy for Norwegian fiction

Read more about the translation subsidy for Norwegian fiction here.

Foreign publishers may also apply for production subsidies for children’s and young adult’s picture books by Norwegian authors and illustrators.
Read more about the scheme here.

November 13 2020
Norway

Digital book trade meeting in Shanghai

Digital and physical book trade meeting focusing on children’s and young adults’ literature. Agencies Hagen Agency, by Eirin Hagen, and Oslo Literary Agency, by Evy Tillman, take part digitally, alongside illustrators Mari Kanstad Johnsen and illustratør Linnea Vestre.
Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in Shanghai.

November 13 2020
Norway

BookTarg, Poland with presentation by NORLA

NORLA’s Senior Adviser Dina Roll-Hansen will, during the digital book industry event BookTarg, give a talk titled “Literature export in unpredictable times. New Norwegian narrative non-fiction”.
She will also briefly present Norwegian translation subsidy schemes that may be of interest to Polish publishers and translators.

November 11 2020
Norway

Digital book trade meeting in New York

Digital book trade meeting with a focus on non-fiction. Speed dating with Norwegian agents. NORLA’s selected title films will be screened.
Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York.

November 9 2020
Poland

Digital book trade meeting in Poland

Digital book trade meeting focusing on all genres. NORLA’s selected title films will be screened.
Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Warsaw.

November 3 2020
Norway

Digital book trade meeting in Denmark

Digital book trade meeting with a focus on non-fiction, with screening of our “selected title films”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BatsPbtLcA&list=PLdbu338EvvAa6RH8zx3vLhu11D0wN80Hw. Speed dating with Norwegian agents.
Organized in cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Copenhagen.

October 29 2020
Norway

Webinar in The Netherlands

Webinar focusing on children’s and young adults’ literature, with screening of our selected title films. Organized in collaboration with translator Paula Stevens and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in den Haag.

October 27 2020
Norway

Meeting of NORLA’s committee of experts for non-fiction

Meeting of NORLA’s committee of experts for non-fiction (for the consideration of applications for translation subsidies with deadline 1 October).

Read more about the translation subsidy here.

October 22 2020
Norway

Digital book trade meeting in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou

Digital book trade meeting in collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing and the Consulates General in Shanghai and Guangzhou.
The focus will be on all genres, with screening of our selected title films.