Previous activities

The New York office of the Frankfurter Buchmesse, together with Publishing Perspectives, will host the first two-day Children’s Books Salon in New York City.

The aim of the salon is to build a platform where international children’s book publishers can meet each other in person, strengthen their international relationships, learn about new titles, and discuss issues specific to the children’s book market.
Hege Langrusten and Dina Roll-Hansen participate from NORLA.

Read more about the exciting event here.

And read interviews with some of the international participants here.

NORLA received the sixth group of international publishers who were in Norway to be introduced to Norwegian writers and the Norwegian book industry. This time we invited publishers from the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. The publishers saw a large number of presentations and returned home with many positive impressions and experiences – inspired to discover new authors.

Several of NORLA’s staff will be out of office January 16-19, attending a seminar with our Nordic colleagues.
The employees at the Nordic literary offices meet annually, and this year the meeting will take place in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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.

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.

At NORLA we will close for the Christmas holiday Friday afternoon, December 22.
The office will reopen on Tuesday, 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 Tuesday, 05 December, a book trade meeting for Swedish publishers will be held at the Norwegian embassy in Stockholm. The focus will be on children’s books.

Also this year, NORLA and Norwegian authors will participate in the Non/fiction Book Fair in Moscow

On 27–30 November the Nordic Literature Days at the Hamburg House of Literature will take place.

24–26 November NORLA will hold a seminar for German language translators at the Hamburg House of Literature. The seminar will take place immediately preceding Nordische Literaturtage, where a number of Norwegian authors will be represented.

Read more about the translation subsidy for Norwegian fiction here.

In Krasnoyarsk, located on the banks of the Jenisejs River in eastern Siberia, every year one of Russia’s largest and most important literature exhibition takes place.
Contact Senior Adviser Dina Roll-Hansen if you would like to schedual a meeting.

NORLA will be very active at the book fair in Frankfurt 2017, in that only two years remain before Norway will be Guest of Honour.

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

We are looking forward to taking part in this year’s Book & Library Fair in Göteborg. You will find NORLA at the International Rights Centre, at table 75.
Contact us if you would like to schedule a meeting.

The six members of NORLA’s “New Voices” programme: Andreas Tjernshaugen, Birger Emanuelsen, Tiril Broch Aakre, Anders Kvammen, Nina Lykke and Mari Kanstad Johnsen, will attend the Gøteborg Book Fair 28–29 September.
Beyond learning more about the international book market and how a book fair functions, the six writers will also introduce themselves as part of the book fair programme.
See the details below: