Poem of the Week. 52 poems through the year
Poem of the Week is back!
In 2019, NORLA launched the project, Poem of the Week, 52 poems throughout the year, in connection with Norway being Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, where modern and older poetry was presented every week to an attentive international audience.
We are now continuing our focus on poetry with a new series, Poem of the Week, which, as it did last time, follows a narrative linked to the seasons. The selection is made by Annette Vonberg.
Poem of the Week, week 1: Mansur Rajih "And Yet They Sing"
Enjoy a weekly poem by authors from – or living in – Norway, throughout the year.
Poem of the Week, week 52: Torhild Wardenær "Time for Presents"
Enjoy a weekly poem by authors from Norway, throughout the year.
Poem of the Week, week 51: Hanne Aga "I See You"
Enjoy a weekly poem by authors from Norway, throughout the year.
The Norwegian Government honours Jon Fosse
On the occasion of Jon Fosse being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Norwegian Government is establishing a new, annual initiative in honour of the author – an annual Fosse lecture, which will be held alongside an event organised by the National Library of Norway, where a Fosse Scholarship will also be awarded. In this way, the Government wants to demonstrate how important Fosse’s literary works are, both for Norway and internationally.
Poem of the Week, week 50: Paulus Utsi: "The Shadow"
Enjoy a weekly poem by authors from Norway and Sapmi, throughout the year.
Poem of the Week, week 49: Johan Sebastian Welhaven "The Snow's Now Falling Thick and Fast"
Enjoy a weekly poem by authors from Norway, throughout the year.
Kirsti Baggethun - Translator of the Month for December
Kirsti Baggethun is Norwegian, and has translated around 100 books. She started out translating from English and Spanish to Norwegian, but ever since the 90s she has almost exclusively translated from Norwegian to Spanish, in collaboration with Asunción Lorenzo. She has also translated several novels by Jon Fosse, in collaboration with Cristina Gómez Baggethun.
Poem of the Week, week 48: Thorvald Steen "On the Ceiling"
Enjoy a weekly poem by authors from Norway, throughout the year.
NORLA offers its warmest congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Brage Prize
The Brage Prize (Norwegian: Brageprisen) is a literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation (Den norske bokprisen). The prize recognizes recently published Norwegian literature and it has been awarded each autumn since 1992. The prize’s name, “Brage”, is taken from Norse mythology and refers to the god of poetry and solemn speeches.
Competition Winners Announced
As Norway was Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in 2019, we decided to include all fields and actors of the book industry in Germany – including a group which is both dear and important to us: The Book Sellers. Among the initiatives we arranged, was a book store window competition. Book stores from all over Germany were encouraged to design windows promoting Norwegian authors and books.
Poem of the Week, week 47: Inger Hagerup "Dies Irae"
Enjoy a weekly poem by authors from Norway, throughout the year.