We are happy to present our selected title author Jonny Halberg. He has written Revelation to John (original title: Johannes’ åpenbaring). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the spring 2023.

Read our interview with Jonny here.

We are happy to present our selected title author Lars Ramslie. He has written The Mountain, the Gun, the Lake (original title: Fjellet, geværet, vannet). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the spring 2023.

Read our interview with Lars here.

We are happy to present our selected title author Ida Hegazi-Høyer. She has written The Surgeon (original title: Kirurgen). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the spring 2023.

Read our interview with Ida here.

We are happy to present our selected title author Hilde Rød-Larsen. She has written Diamond Nights (original title: Diamantkvelder). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the spring 2023.

Read our interview with Hilde here.

We are happy to offer insightful interviews with the authors and illustrators of our 24 Selected Titles of the spring.
Get better aquainted with the books and also the people who wrote and illustrated them!

Enjoy a weekly poem by authors from Norway, throughout the year.

We at NORLA are proud and delighted to present our selected titles for the spring:

24 wonderful books which are divided into fiction and non-fiction, for both adults, children and young adults.
See all the selected titles here

Annika is known among Estonia’s youth as “the one who translated the William Wenton books,” thanks to the popularity of the series, which came as quite a surprise for the translator who thought that children’s literature ended with Harry Potter. Her dream has always been to translate “proper” novels, something she hasn’t yet managed to do, as she says. For the last 7 years, Annika has also worked as a librarian, museum curator and interpreter of cultural events for the visually impaired, but the hardest job has been becoming a mother. Right now she is translating Sleeping With the Enemy by Ellen Støkken Dahl, and working as a copywriter for a museum. Her desire is actually to write books herself, but until inspiration strikes, it pays to keep warm by translating other people’s thoughts.

February’s translator of the month is João Reis, who translates both non-fiction and fiction from Norwegian to Portuguese. The authors he has translated include Knut Hamsun, Karl Ove Knausgård, Vigdis Hjorth and Dag Solstad. In addition to Norwegian, he translates from Swedish, Danish, Icelandic and English. João has translated more than 80 books and is also a fiction writer himself. He lives in Porto, Portugal.

Mette Børja, Senior Communications Adviser, will be stepping into a new role this spring, as a Coordinator for NORLA`s Translator`s Conference in June.
Together with Program Manager Dina Roll-Hansen, she will be having the overall responsibility for the conference.
To fill Mette`s previous role, we have engaged Martine Jonsrud in a temporary 60% part time position as Communications Adviser until end of August.
In addition, our intern Agata Kazmierczak, who started in NORLA working with Norway as Guest of Honour at the Book Fair in Warszawa earlier this year, has been offered a 60% part time Project Assistant role until this summer.

On Monday 6 February, it was officially announced that Norway will be Guest of Honour at the Cairo International Book Fair in 2024.

Today is the National Sami Day! We in NORLA are proud to be contributing to the translation of Sámi literature, and here are some recent highlights.