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.
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)
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!