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Helene Uri and Tuva Synnevåg - Selected Title Authors

We are happy to present our selected title author Helene Uri who has written The Road Through the Winter Forest (original title: Veien gjennom vinterskogen – en førjulsfortelling i 24 deler). The book is illustrated by Tuva Synnevåg, and it is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the spring 2025.

Helene Uri, Tuva Synnevåg (ill.)

The Road Through the Winter Forest
Veien gjennom vinterskogen - en førjulsfortelling i 24 deler

Genre: Children and Young Adults
Category:
Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
Year: 2024
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9788205604261
English sample translation available

Linda Trast Lillevik, Gustav Kvaal (ill.)

Are You Sleeping, Eanat?
Sover du, Eanat?

Genre: Children and Young Adults
Category: Picture Book
Publisher: Iđut
Year: 2024
Pages: 56
ISBN: 9788276012927
English sample translation available

Magnhild Winsnes

Hey! Let’s Go to the Kindergarten!
Kom! Vi skal til barnehagen!

Genre: Children and Young Adults
Category: Picture Book
Publisher: Aschehoug
Year: 2025 - Due May
Pages: 56
ISBN: 9788203451775

Magnhild Winsnes - Selected Title Author

We are happy to present our selected title author Magnhild Winsnes. She has written and illustrated Hey! Let’s Go to the Kindergarten! (original title: Kom! Vi skal til barnehagen!). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the spring 2025.

Emely Benedicte Kahrs - Selected Title Author

We are happy to present our selected title author Emely Benedicte Kahrs. She has written Who By Friday (original title: Hvem på en fredag). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the spring 2025.

Johan B. Mjønes - Selected Title Author

We are happy to present our selected title author Johan B. Mjønes. He has written Spuria. The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the spring 2025.

Maria Kjos Fonn - Selected Title Author

We are happy to present our selected title author Maria Kjos Fonn. She has written Margaret, Are You Grieving (original title: Margaret, er du i sorg). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the spring 2025.

Linda Trast Lillevik and Gustav Kvaal - Selected Title Authors

We are happy to present our selected title author Linda Trast Lillevik, who has written Are You Sleeping, Eanat? (original title: Sover du, Eanat?). The book is illustrated by Gustav Kvaal, and it is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the spring 2025.

Gøril Sæther and Oda Valle - Selected Title Authors

We are happy to present our selected title author Gøril Sæther, who has written The World of Pets. Everything You Need to Know About Our Animal Friends (original title: Den store boka om kjæledyr). The book is illustrated by Oda Valle and it is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the spring 2025.

Elin Hansson

Fiddle Fever
Felefeber

Genre: Fiction
Category: Young Adult Novel
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Year: 2023
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9788202781583
English sample translation available

NORLA’s Selected Titles for Spring 2024 are here!

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

The Fosse Lecture and the Fosse Prize for Translators 2025

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.

Get to know our Selected Titles Authors of the Autumn

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!

Zinken Hopp (1905-1987), Malvin Neset (ill.)

The Magic Chalk
Trollkrittet

Genre: Children
Category: Children's fiction
Publisher: Vigmostad & Bjørke
Year: 1948 (newest ed. 2005)
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9788241904127
Full English translation available.

Paul Russell Garrett - Translator of the Month

October​’​s translator of the month is Paul Russell Garrett, who translates from Norwegian into English. Paul is originally from Canada, but has lived in London for almost twenty years. He took a degree in Scandinavian Studies at UCL, with a focus on Danish, Old Norse, Literature and History. At the University of Copenhagen he delved even deeper into Danish, studying Danish language, linguistics and translation. Paul also has experience teaching Danish at universities, college and privately. He first started translating Danish literature and drama, but soon moved into Norwegian, so far translating Lars Mytting​’​s The Sixteen Trees of the Somme, John Arne Riise​’​s biography, penned by Jens M Johansson, The Running Man, as well as Eirik Vold​’​s biography, Hugo Ch​á​vez: the Bolivarian Revolution from Up Close. Paul has a special place in his heart for theatre and has done a lot of work with drama ​— as a translator and more. His translation of Ibsen​’​s A Doll​’​s House was staged in London​’​s West End in 2012. He​’​s now in charge of the theatre translator mentoring programme for the London-based theatre company, Foreign Affairs.​​

Kari Stai

So-so Happy
Passe happy

Genre: Children and Young Adults
Category: Novel
Publisher: Samlaget
Year: 2021
Pages: 179
ISBN: 9788234002595
English sample translation available

Arne Svingen

The Ballad of a Broken Nose
Sangen om en brukket nese

Genre: Children And Young Adults
Category: Novel
Publisher: Gyldendal
Year: 2012
Pages: 207
English edition available

Neda Alaei

On One Condition
På én betingelse

Genre: Children and Young Adults
Category: Young Adult Novel
Publisher: Gyldendal
Year: 2023
Pages: 188
ISBN: 9788205572652
English sample translation available

Marianne Kaurin

Our Own Little Paradise
Syden

Genre: Children and Young Adults
Category: Novel
Publisher: Aschehoug Forlag
Year: 2018
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9788203264016
English sample translation available
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