Norway is Guest of Honour at the 2022 Warsaw Book Fair. Here readers are eager to not only attend author’s presentations, but also to buy books. And at the Norwegian tent, it is busy days for the booksellers of Moda na Czytanie, who offer Norwegian books in Polish translation. Here there are also long queues of readers waiting to have the authors sign their books.
We have met the three booksellers: Piotr Bagiński, Jacek Kochanowski and Violetta Wiśniewska, for an interview.

Would you like to work with literature and be part of Norway’s upcoming Guest of Honour project at the Warsaw Book Fair, May 26-29?
Are you well organized and fond of writing?

In Norway we have that very strange custom of “Påskekrim”, i.e. reading/watching crime fiction stories at Easter. Learn more about the tradition here and here.

At NORLA, we recommend three of our Spring Selected Titles for thrilling reads.

Enjoy your Påskekrim!

The translator of the month for April is Ioana-Andreea Mureșan from Romania. She has recently been appointed assistant professor at the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, after having collaborated with the department and teaching Norwegian for more than ten years. She has translated two volumes of Karl Ove Knausgård’s My Struggle series, Book 1 and 5. Ioana has also translated Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, which was staged at the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu, Romania in 2018.

We at NORLA are proud and delighted to present our selected titles of 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

You can also watch the authors and illustrators present their books in short-film form.
The films are available here, on our YouTube channel

We celebrate the International Women’s Day by recommending three Norwegian books; a critically acclaimed and award-nominated novel, a new release and a handbook for the younger female readers.

Our translator of the month for March is Guy Puzey from Scotland. Guy works in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he is also currently Head of the Department of European Languages and Cultures. He has translated work by a wide range of authors, especially from Nynorsk, the lesser-used of the two official written standards of Norwegian. He was shortlisted for the 2015 Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation for Waffle Hearts (published in North America as Adventures with Waffles), his translation of Maria Parr’s Vaffelhjarte.

NORLA is proud to announce that Kjersti Anfinnsen and her novel Moments for Eternity (original title: Øyeblikk for evigheten, 2021, published by Kolon forlag, foreign rights by Gyldendal Agency) is the Norwegian nominee for the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) 2022.
The winner will be announced in April during the Paris Book Fair.

Read more about the prize and see the complete shortlist here

NORLA’s translator’s award was given out for the 16th time at the Bergen International Literary Festival on 12th February.
The prize is awarded to an emerging translator talent working directly from Norwegian to encourage their continued efforts in promoting Norwegian literature. The prize is awarded annually, alternating each year between translators of fiction and non-fiction. The fiction award is granted courtesy of Kristin Brudevoll’s Anniversary Fund.

NORLA’s translator’s award for 2021 is awarded to Karolina Drozdowska for her translations of fiction into Polish.

Norway will be the Guest of Honour at the Book Fair in Warsaw on 26 – 29 May 2022. The book fair takes place at the Palace of Culture and is the most important book fair in Poland.

The Guest of Honour project is organized by NORLA in close cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Warsaw.

Today is the Sami National Day, and everyone at NORLA offers our warmest congratulations to all our Sami friends and the Sami people: Læhkoeh biejjine – Vuorbbe biejvijn – Lihkku beivviin – Gratulerer med dagen!

NORLA invites foreign publishers, editors, sub-agents and scouts to apply for our fellowship program at the Norwegian Festival of Literature in Lillehammer, 31 May – 2 June 2022. This year marks the physical opening of the newly established rights centre Lillehammer Rights at Scandic Victoria Hotel, where all fellows will get a table. The rights centre is a collaboration with the Norwegian Festival of Literature in Lillehammer. Additionally, we continue with the popular seminar where you will be introduced to New Voices from Norway. This year, participants of all genres and languages are welcome to apply.