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2017-12-19

NORLA is closed during Christmas

At NORLA the Christmas holiday begins on Friday, December 22.
Our office will open again Tuesday, January 2.

We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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2017-12-12

Foreign missions take part in the Frankfurt project

The Norwegian foreign missions have an important role in the Frankfurt project. The Embassy in Rome is one of the foreign missions who are doing their part to put Norwegian literature on the international agenda.

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2017-11-30

Evgenia Vorobyeva - Translator of the Month December 2017

The translator of the month for December is Evgenia Vorobyeva, who translates into Russian. She is of current interest due to her translation of Anders Kvammen’s prize-winning graphic novel Ungdomsskolen (“Junior High”) which was launched in December during the Book Fair Non/fiction in Moscow.
Evgenia has translated a number of Norwegian non-fiction titles and also teaches Norwegian, translation and interpreting at university level.

Read more about Evgenia here.

Those of you who understand Norwegian can read the interview here.

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2017-11-23

Helga Flatland wins this year's Booksellers' Prize

NORLA offers its warmest congratulations to Helga Flatland, winner of The Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize 2017 for her novel A Modern Family!

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2017-11-22

NORLA offers its warmest congratulations to the winners of the Brage Prize 2017

The winners are:

2017-11-14

Kerri A. Pierce - Translator of the Month November 2017

Translators are the most important emissaries we have for bringing Norwegian literature out into the world. Their work is of decisive significance and to spotlight this work, we started the interview series entitled “Translator of the month”. Here we will get to know some of those who translate from Norwegian and learn about their challenging work of transmitting Norwegian literature into all the different languages of the world.

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The translator of the month for November is Kerri A. Pierce, who translates into American English. She has selected and translated three short stories in the November edition of Words without Borders and she has also written an introduction to the featured short stories by Gunnhild Øyehaug, Merethe Lindstrøm and Laila Stien. Kerri is a translator of both fiction and non-fiction from Norwegian, and she has also translated from Danish, Swedish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Faroese.

Read more about Kerri here.

Those of you who understand Norwegian can read the interview here.

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2017-11-03

Greetings from our Frankfurt team

Now that things have calmed down after the Frankfurt Book Fair we are busy harvesting the fruits of a hectic week of meetings, idea development and establishing collaborations in preparation for Frankfurt 2019. In just a year’s time it will happen: Norway will take over the role as Guest of Honour after Georgia and we will embark on the most important year ever in the history of the export of Norwegian literature.

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2017-11-02

First trip to Frankfurt

When you visit Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time, it’s handy to go along with colleagues who’ve already been there before. And it’s particularly handy to be there with colleagues who are very tall or who dash around in colourful, polka-dotted coats that make them easy to spot in a crowd. Because the site of the fair is just as enormous as everybody told you, it’s full to the brim with publishing people from all over the world – and the tempo is higher than you could ever have imagined.

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2017-10-31

First meeting of the Frankfurt 2019 brainstorming group for children's and young adult literature

One important aim when Norway is guest country at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2019 will be the promotion and highlighting of Norwegian children’s and YA literature – which is among the best we have to offer!
NORLA has set up a brainstorming group to help us come up with great ideas about what we can and should do to make as much as possible out of the whole event; it will be holding its inaugural meeting today!

The participants are:
Kristin Jobraaten (Ena publishing), Taran L. Bjørnstad (NBU, Norwegian Writers For Children), Birgitte Eek (NBI, The Norwegian Institute for Children’s Books), Harald Rosenløw Eeg, Bjørn F. Rørvik and Stian Hole. Heading the group is NORLA’s Andrine Pollen, Coordinator Literary Programme Frankfurt 2019.

We are looking forward to cooperating with this great group and establishing wonderful ideas for the guest of honour program for children and young adults.

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2017-10-17

Seventh season of NORLA's translators hotel

Today, NORLA had the pleasure of welcoming four new translators to Oslo for the seventh season of our translators hotel at Hotell Bondeheimen:

The four translators are:
Jarka Vrbová (Czech)
Rasim Muratovic (Bosnian)
Sara Culeddu (Italian)
Agné Guigaité (Lithuanian)

We look forward to spending the next two weeks in their company!

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2017-10-16

Anne-Marie Soulier - Translator of the Month October 2017

October’s translator of the month was Anne-Marie Soulier, who translates into French and is extremely active in a very special area of Norway’s literary treasure: poetry.
She was born in Lunéville in 1945, but spent many years living abroad (in Germany, Norway, Algeria and England) before settling down in Strasbourg. She worked for many years at the university, where she mainly taught English. Nowadays, she works primarily on the translation of Norwegian poetry and has just completed translations of both Hanne Bramness and Olav H. Hauge. In addition, Anne-Marie has published several collections of her own poetry, often in collaboration with different artists, and some of her poems have also been set to music by composers.

You may read more about Anne-Marie here.

Read our interview (in Norwegian) here.

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2017-10-09

A new platform for translators of Norwegian literature

NORLA recently launched the website Books from Norway. The website provides foreign rights buyers with information in English about Norwegian titles. In addition to being a platform for rightsholders and rights buyers, Books from Norway is made for translators of Norwegian literature.