The Norwegian Guest of Honour Spring is Underway

Our Translator of the Month for January is Miroslav Zumrík. He holds a master’s degree in philosophy, Polish, and Scandinavian studies, and translates from Norwegian, Swedish, and Polish into Slovak. He studied at Comenius University in Bratislava, where he also completed his PhD in literary studies with a focus on Thure Erik Lund’s works, and where he now teaches Scandinavian subjects.
Miro is also a researcher at the Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where he primarily works in corpus linguistics, stylistics, and terminology.

When Cristina Gómez Baggethun translates Jon Fosse into Spanish, she’s forced out of her comfort zone and has to experiment. Read about her kinship with his books and her search for the Fosse rhythm in the Spanish language.

The French philosopher and theologian Jean-Luc Marion has been invited to give the first Fosse Lecture, and the German translator Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel has been awarded the Fosse Prize for Translators in 2025. The Fosse Prize will be among the largest of its kind in the world.
At the invitation of the Royal House of Norway, the Fosse Lecture and the award ceremony for the Fosse Prize will take place at the Royal Palace on Thursday 24 April 2025.

We are happy to offer readable insightful interviews with the authors and illustrators of our 25 Selected Titles of the autumn.
We invite you to get better aquainted with the books and the people who wrote and illustrated them!

In Oslo, on September 26, while celebrating International Translation Day, or Hieronymus Day as it’s known in Norway, NORLA presented its annual translation award for the nineteenth time. NORLA’s Translator’s Award for 2024 goes to Mišo Grundler for his outstanding work in translating Norwegian non-fiction into Croatian. Congratulations!

Our Translator of the Month for December is Riina Hanso, who translates into Estonian. She has translated books within various genres: fiction, drama, crime, non-fiction and books for children and young adults, and by doing so has become “acquainted” with authors such as Henrik Ibsen, Roy Jacobsen, Merethe Lindstrøm, Jo Nesbø and Maria Parr. If there is one genre she wants to translate more of, it is definitely children’s books. And maybe poetry, in collaboration with someone.

Our Translator of the Month for November is Outi Menna from Finland. Since 1998, she has translated over 200 books from Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish into Finnish – mainly adult fiction, but also books for children and young adults.
Outi holds a Master’s degree in Nordic languages and literature from the University of Helsinki and has been working as a literary translator since her student days.

We are happy to present our selected title author Petter Bøckman. He has written Animals Like Us (original title: Oss dyr imellom). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the autumn 2024.

We are happy to present our selected title author Are Kalvø. He has written Only Countryfolk Long for Home (original title: Berre bønder lengtar heim). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the autumn 2024.

We are happy to present our selected title author Ingvild Holtan-Hartwig. She has written The Tundra Doctor (original title: Legen på vidda. Et år i Karasjok). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the autumn 2024.

We are happy to present our selected title author Bjørn Berge. He has written Smell – The Tale of a Fading Sense (original title: Lukt. Fortellingen om en falmet sans), which is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the autumn 2024. The book is illustrated with monoprints by visual artist Anette Rosenberg.

We are happy to present our selected title author Darya Shut . She has written The Price of Freedom. My Father, Me, and the Dictator (original title: Frihetens pris – min far, jeg og diktatoren). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the autumn 2024.