Previous activities

October 30 2015-November 1 2015
Cyprus

Hanne Ørstavik in Cyprus

Meet critically acclaimed author Hanne Ørstavik at the international literary festival in Nicosia. More than 20 international authors and poets will participate in a series of readings, musical events, round table discussions and more.

October 30 2015-November 8 2015
Chile

Kjartan Fløgstad, Gabi Gleichmann and Kirsti Baggethun to Chile

The international Chilean book fair, Feria Internacional del Libro de Santiago, this year focuses on the Nordic countries, Nórdicos en FILSA. The fair takes place 22 October + 8. November.

Norwegian authors Kjartan Fløgstad and Gabi Gleichmann take part, as well as Kirsti Baggethun, author and translator of Norwegian literature into Spanish. Also musicians Christina Sandsengen, Moddi and Terje Evensen are part of the rich festival program which also includes several art exhibitions, films etc.

Meet the authors/translator in the following events:

October 27 2015
Norway

Meeting of NORLA’s committee of experts for non-fiction

Meeting of NORLA’s committee of experts for non-fiction (for applications for translation subsidies with deadline 1 October).

October 23 2015
United States

Inger Wold Lund in New York

A rare Brooklyn reading by Berlin-based Inger Wold Lund, artist and author of “Leaving Leaving Behind Behind”, and a performance by Tal Gilboa & Elizabeth Stehl Kleberg.

October 19-October 21 2015
Germany

Atle Næss in Germany

Meet Atle Næss on tour in Germany, presenting his critically acclaimed biography on Edvard Munch in the company of his translator Daniela Stilzebach. There will be events in Bonn, Berlin and Lübeck.

October 14-October 18 2015
Germany

NORLA to attend Frankfurt Book Fair

NORLA will as usual be taking part in the Frankfurt book fair. You may find us at the joint Norwegian stand: Hall 5.0 A57.
On Wednesday 14 October the Norwegian Minister of Culture, Mrs Thorhild Widvey, will visit the book fair in cooperation with NORLA. This autumn, the Norwegian government will ask the Norwegian Parliament to pledge NOK 25 million towards enabling Norway to apply for Guest of Honour status at the Frankfurt book fair in 2019.
Read more here.

Please contact us if you would like to schedule a meeting with NORLA.

See NORLA’s selected titles here.

October 8 2015
Germany

Carl Frode Tiller in Berlin

Meet Carl Frode Tiller at the event Buch des Monats at the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.
Tiller will be reading from his award-winning novel Kennen Sie diesen Mann? (Norwegian title: Innsirkling), along with his translator Ina Kronenberger. The book is published is German through translation subsidy by NORLA.

October 6 2015
Netherlands

NORLA to meet publishers from the Netherlands in The Hague

The Netherlands have long been an important market for Norwegian books. In collaboration with the Norwegian embassy in The Hague and translator Paula Stevens, NORLA is organizing for the fourth time an exclusive half-day seminar at the embassy that is designed for a select group of publishers from the Netherlands and Flanders.

October 1 2015
Norway

Application deadline for sample translation of Norwegian literature

Publishers, agents and translators abroad and in Norway can apply to NORLA for subsidies for sample translations.
The translation must be directly from Norwegian. Sample translations of NORLA’s selected titles- will be given priority.

October 1 2015
Norway

Awarding of NORLA’s Translator’s Award

During the celebration in Oslo of St. Hieronymus Day, International Translation Day, we will announce the winner of NORLA’s Translator’s Award.

October 1 2015
Norway

Deadline for NORLA's causerie competition

Please note that the competition is open only for those who translate directly from Norwegian.

October 1 2015
Norway

Application deadline for translation subsidy for Norwegian non-fiction

We would remind foreign publishers of the possibility to apply for translation subsidies through NORLA for the publication of Norwegian books.
Read more about NORLA’s translation subsidies and how foreign publishers can apply.

September 29 2015-October 2 2015
Germany

Karl Ove Knausgård in Germany

Meet Karl Ove Knausgård on tour, presenting volume five of his My Struggle-series. The novel is translated into German by Paul Berf and published by Bertelsmann through translation subsidy from NORLA.

September 26-September 27 2015
Norway

Lars Mytting in the UK

Meet Lars Mytting, the author of one of the greatest non-fiction publishing successes in Scandinavia ever: the non-fiction book Norwegian Wood (original title: Hel ved, 2011). In 15 months, over 200 000 copies of the book were sold in Norway and Sweden. And foreign rights are sold to several countries.

September 24-September 27 2015
Sweden

NORLA to attend the Göteborg book fair

This year’s Book & Library Fair in Göteborg is underway and you will find NORLA at the International Rights Centre, at tables 63 and 64.
Contact us if you would like to schedule a meeting.
See NORLA’s selected titles here.