Previous activities

This year we are also looking forward to attending the book fair in Beijing, in collaboration with our sister organizations from Sweden, Denmark and Finland (NordLit).
Please contact us if you would like to schedule a meeting.

See our selected titles with presentations in both Chinese and English.

Like last year, NordLit is also preparing a seminar in conjunction with the fair dedicated to translators into Chinese from the respective languages. The author Endre Lund Eriksen will take part in the seminar and will also be presenting a separate programme of readings in the course of the week.
Read more about Endre Lund Eriksen.

Author and illustrator Stian Hole is also in Beijing during the Book Fair, taking part in a Chinese Culture Exchange Seminar along with approx. 70 authors, translators and critics. The seminar is arranged by China Culture Translation Study and Support, CCTSS. Read more about Stian Hole.

See the covers of Norwegian books recently published in Chinese through NORLA’s translation subsidies here.

Award-winning author and illustrator Stian Hole takes part in a Chinese Culture Exchange Seminar in Beijing, arranged by China Culture Translation Study and Support, CCTSS.
The event aims at enhancing cultural exchange between China and the rest of the world. Approx. 70 authors, translator and critics are attending the seminar.
The programme offers discussions on translation, roundtable sessions, intoduction to Chinese literature and visits to several literary institutions like publishing houses, libraries, the Beijing International Book Fair and Amazon China.

CCTSS, an affiliate of the Minister of Culture of China, is non-profit online & offline service platform aiming at on pushing dynamics of global important cultural exchange, translation and researches, organizing online/offline academic group activities, releasing special project resources and information in respects of literature, films and publishing, etc

More about Stian Hole here.

Read an interview with him 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.

The visits of lecturers and authors from Norway are intended to serve as a valuable and inspiring supplement to ordinary instruction.
NORLA has taken over responsibility for administration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ scheme for financial support for author/lecturer visits to institutions of higher learning abroad.

For more information (in Norwegian) please click here.

APPLICATION DEADLINES: 15 January and 1 August

Read more about the translation subsidy for Norwegian fiction here.

The book autumn will soon arrive and at NORLA we are looking forward to everything that will take place in the coming months.

Don’t hesitate to contact us to schedule a meeting.

We are looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible!

At NORLA our summer holiday begins on Monday, 27 June.
The office will open again on Monday, 1 August.

NORLA would like to thank you all for a pleasant collaboration so far this year.

We wish you a wonderful summer – and hope to see you in the autumn!

Looking for books to read this summer?
See a selection of Norwegian books recently published in English here.
Or, if you happen to read Norwegian, you may find reading tips from everyone at NORLA here.

This year NORLA will attend the Seoul International Book Fair for the first time. Arne & Carlos’ knitting books have taken South Korea by storm and there are great expectations surrounding the authors’ visit this year.

Read more about Arne & Carlos here.

Read more (in Korean) about the visit on website of the Norwegian Embassy in Seoul here.

See the covers of Norwegian books published in South Korea through NORLA’s translation subsidies since 2011 here.

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)