June 1 is the application deadline for translators of Norwegian literature regarding stays at NORLA’s Translators hotel autumn 2016 (weeks 36-37, i.e. as of Monday September 5 through Sunday September 18).
Please note that the offer is only available for translators who translate directly from Norwegian.
Read more (in Norwegian) here.
Read more about the translation subsidy for Norwegian non-fiction here.
We are looking forward to the Norwegian Festival of Literature, Sigrid Undset-dagene in Lillehammer, where for the first time NORLA will hold a translators seminar dedicated to a single book currently being translated into many languages.
Eight translators, all of whom are working on Morten Strøksnes’ Havboka (“Shark Drunk”), will meet to discuss the book and the challenges they have experienced with the text. They will also have the chance to meet the author.
We are looking forward to a seminar that will be extremely beneficial for the translators’ ongoing work on the book!
Read more about the book Shark Drunk here.
Also this year NORLA is providing travel grants for authors taking part in the Norwegian-American literature festival in New York, 19-21 May.
The festival is a result of a cooperation between founder Frode Saugestad, The Paris Review and The Norwegian Consulate General in New York.
This year no less than nine Norwegian authors will be attending:
Geir Gulliksen (for his latest novel, please click here), Cathrine Knudsen, Kristine Næss, Arne Lygre, Ari Behn, Johan Harstad, Maja Lunde, Helga Flatland, Karl Ove Knausgård at Black Bear in Brooklyn.
Morgenbladet’s Culture Editor Ane Farsethås, together with James Wood from The New Yorker and Lorin Stein from The Paris Review, will host the book forum.
NORLA is also arranging an book trade meeting Thursday 19 May for American publishers and Norwegian publishers and agents in collaboration with Norway’s Consulate General in New York. Participating is also Karl Ove Knausgård, Åsne Seierstad og Morgenbladet’s Culture Editor Ane Farsethås.
See all details for:
May 19
May 20
May 21.
And read more about the events here.
NORLA’s offices are closed until Wednesday May 18, due to the holidays Whitsunday and Norway’s Constitution Day.
The Scandinavian School and Culture Centre in Moscow holds an annual Norway-Day. On May 14 the author Nina E. Grøntvedt will present her books. And also several other Norwegian books will be presented in different ways, among others the second volume about the popular character "Dustefjerten" (read more), the internationally prizewinning book about the fossile Ida, Nordover – Med Nansen mot Nordpolen, Bli best and Helvetesuka
See the complete program (in Russian) here.
Among Czechs there has long been a high level of interest in Nordic literature. Our grandparents were eager to get their hands on the books of Knut Hamsun, Sigrid Undset and Selma Lagerlöf; they also went to the theatre to see the plays of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. The huge popularity of contemporary Nordic literature is due in no small part to the region’s celebrated crime fiction – Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbø and Jussi Adler-Olsen are names known by a great many Czechs today.
The Book World Guest of Honour are in 2016 in frame of the campaign #ReadNordic the Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The aim of the guest of honour is to present current literary in Nordic literature and introduce us books written by authors coming to the fair.
Karl Ove Knausgård will be participating at The Spring Humanities Festival in Chicago, which takes place between April 28 and May 1.
Read more about the event here.
And more about Knausgård here.
The festival is organised by The Chicago Humanities Festival.
(Photo: André Løyning)
Meeting of NORLA’s committee of experts for fiction for the consideration of applications for translation subsidies with deadline 1 April.
Read more about the translation subsidy here.
Lars. Fr. Svendsen and Vigdis Hjorth will take part in the Arsenal book fair in Kiev, Ukraine 20−21 April to promote the Ukrainian translations of Jørgen + Anne er sant (Totally True Love) and Frihetens filosofi, (The Philosophy of Freedom), respectively. The Norwegian embassy in Kiev and NORLA are responsible for the event, in collaboration with the book fair. Dina Roll-Hansen will take part from NORLA.
At NORLA we are pleased about the overwhelming response to our offer of stays at the translators hotel for translators who translate directly from Norwegian. This spring four lucky applicants have been awarded two-week stays simultaneously in Oslo at Hotell Bondeheimen. This will be the translators hotel’s fourth season.
The four translators we are happy to give a warm welcome to Oslo are:
Rositsa G. Tsvetanova (Bulgarian)
Sofija Vukovic (Serbian)
Martin Aitken (British)
Olga Drobot (Russian).
Read more about NORLA’s translators hotel and the fantastic feedback from previous guests here.
NORLA will take part in the London Book Fair at Olympia, and you will find us at the Nordic stand, 6F70.
We are looking forward to meeting both contacts of old and new!
See our selected Spring titles here.
And see reading tips from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London here.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us to schedule meetings!
NORLA attends the children’s book fair in Bologna, Italy, April 4-7.
Please contact us if you would like to book a meeting at stand 30 C 18!
See our selected titles for Bologna here.
You are also welcome to browse through NORLA’s so called backlists – with books published previous years – sorted by genre here.
See the book covers of Norwegian books for children and young adults published through translation subsidies from NORLA since 2011 on Flickr.
Read more about the translation subsidy for Norwegian fiction here.
NORLA annually hands out an award to a translator of Norwegian literature. The award is given for translations directly from Norwegian.
In 2016, the award will be given to a talented young translator of non-fiction as an encouragement towards continued efforts.
We would very much like to hear from you about deserving candidates!
Read more.