Previous activities

In collaboration with the Norwegian embassy in Ankara, NORLA will present for the first time a seminar in Istanbul for translators from Norwegian to Turkish!

Together with its Nordic sister offices NORLA is arranging a children’s book seminar to take place 4−5 May at Schæffergården in Copenhagen, Denmark. The purpose of the seminar is to strengthen the exchange and translation of literature for children and young people between the Nordic languages. Editors, researchers, critics and others from all of the Nordic countries will attend. The seminar is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

Ivo de Figueiredo will visit Brno (April 22) and Prague (April 25), on the occasion of the launch of the Czech translation of his critically acclaimed book Henrik Ibsen. The Man and the Mask.

Meet Gunnar Staalesen, Herbjørg Wassmo and Stian Hole at Les Escapades littéraires, in Draguignan.

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!
Please don’t hesitate to contact us to schedule meetings!

This spring, NORLA’s staff look forward to attending several book fairs, events and literary festivals around the world. See detailed list below.
Feel free to contact us to schedule a meeting!

NORLA attends children’s book fair in Bologna, Italy. You may meet Margit Walsø or Dina Roll-Hansen at our stand 30 C 18.

See NORLA’s selection of Norwegian titles for children/young adults spring 2015 here.

Read more about the fair here.

We wish everyone a Happy Easter, with lots of good books!

Gert Nygårdshaug will travel to France and Belgium on the occation of the launch of his book Himmelblomsttreet in French. He will attend debates, book signings, and two book fairs: Le Salon du livre in Paris and Quais du Polar in Lyon.

Norwegian authors and NORLA attend Leipziger Buchmesse, Germany.
Read more about the Nordic forum at the bookfair (in German) here

Read more about the book fair here

Meeting of NORLA’s committee of experts for non-fiction (for applications for translation subsidies with deadline 1.2.).
Read more about the translation subsidy here.

Simon Stranger and NORLA will attend the Nordic children’s book conference in Stavanger.
Read more about the conference (in Norwegian) here.

Six Norwegian comic book artists and NORLA will attend the Angouleme international comics festival, France 29 January-1 February.

A unique seminar called ViceVersa will take place in Berlin at the end of January, where a group of translators working from Norwegian to German will meet with a group working from German to Norwegian in a whole week of in-depth translation work!