Previous activities

At the Nordic Children’s Book Conference, NBBK, in Stavanger, NORLA presents the event “Borderless Women’s Rights”, Wednesday 6 February at 14:30.
Marta Breen and Jenny Jordahl have published the non-fiction cartoon Women in Battle (2018). Foreign rights to the book have been sold to 21 countries. But in the United States, Jordahl had to draw clothes over naked nipples, and in Russia the book is only allowed for the over 18’s.
What kind of limitations meet Nordic literature abroad, and where to draw the line – quite literally – for censorship?

The five authors participating in spring’s New Voices program, will receive a small introduction to international rights work and NORLA’s activities, plus an intensive course in presentation technique by translator and actor Erik Skuggevik.

Read more about the authors here.

And read more about the New Voices program here.

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.

NB: For participants in Norway only.
In 2019, Norway will be the Guest of Honour at Frankfurter Buchmesse. This means that Norway, under the direction of NORLA, will be present at numerous events in Germany throughout 2019.
One of these events will be the Leipzig Book Fair on March 21-24th, which along with its Manga-Comic-Con, is a great forum for cosplay. Siri Pettersen’s second book in the Raven Rings series is due to be published in German translation, and to mark this NORLA would like to have someone from Norway appear as a cosplayer from the Raven Rings trilogy in Leipzig.

Read more (in Norwegian) about the competition here.

Welcome to an evening dedicated to contemporary Norwegian children’s literature at the Nordische Botschaften / Felleshus at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin!
23. January. 2019 — 19:00.

The event on Facebook.

Georg Grosz meets Mulysses at Slush Mountain
Modern illustration from Norway

2019 is Norway’s year as Guest of Honour at Frankfurter Buchmesse, and the first event in this Guest of Honour year will be the touring exhibition "Georg Grosz meets Mulysses on Slush Mountain. Modern illustration from Norway.” The exhibition will open at Felleshuset, at the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin, on January 23rd.

Once again, NORLA will be participating in the Jaipur Literature Festival!
This is the world’s largest free literature festival, with an overwhelming number of writers, participants and audiences from India and the rest of the world. The Nordic countries and Norway are well represented this year, with several Nordic authors taking part. From Norway, there will be Maja Lunde, who will talk both about her adult books and about writing for children. Hanne Ørstavik will participate in a panel of Nordic authors, along with Henriette Rostrup, Laura Lindstedt and Einar Karasson, who will be interviewed by Margit Walsø.

Representatives from NORLA’s staff will be attending a seminar with our Nordic colleagues, January 16-18.
The employees at the Nordic literary offices meet annually, and this year the meeting will take place in Helsinki, Finland.

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

The Nordic literary offices all administer The Nordic Council of Ministers’ funding scheme for the translation of literature and drama from one Nordic language to another. Read more about the scheme here.

We have the pleasure of inviting international publishers, editors, sub-agents and scouts to apply for fellowship to the Norwegian Festival of Literature at Lillehammer, May 2019.

The fellowship program is arranged by NORLA in collaboration with the Norwegian Publishers’ Association, and is supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Read more

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.
Read more here.

From January 14-18th, the Literature Go Global group and seven Norwegian literary agencies will be in New York City as part of the competence program for Literature Go Global, where they will participate in an extensive program, along with US agents, scouts, publishers, bookstores and other industry figures, for a unique insight into the US book market.
Literature Go Global is a collaboration between the Ministry of Culture, Innovation Norway and NORLA. The New York program is organised in collaboration with the Frankfurt Book Fair’s New York office.

Read more:
About the Literature Go Global-program here.

About Frankfurt Book Fair New York Inc. here.

At NORLA we will close for the Christmas holiday Friday afternoon, December 21.
The office will reopen on Wednesday, January 2.

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

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.

On Thursday, December 6th, a new book trade meeting for Danish publishers will be held at the residens of the Norwegian embassy in Copenhagen. The focus will this time be on children’s books.

Five Norwegian authors will present their works, and Siri Odfjell from Sølvberget bibliotek og kulturhus in Stavanger will give an introduction to Norwegian literature for children and young adults. There will also be time for the attending Danish publishers to speed-date with Norwegian literary agents.

This year NORLA is also participating with writers at the ‘Non/fiction’ Book Fair in Moscow.
From NORLA, senior adviser Dina Roll-Hansen will be attending. Contact us if you wish to arrange a meeting with NORLA