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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.