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Norway comes closer to Guest of Honour Status in Frankfurt for 2019

For more than one year NORLA has been working towards enabling Norway to apply for Guest of Honour status at the Frankfurt book fair in 2019. Last week the happy news arrived that the Norwegian government views this endeavour as a measure towards increasing the export of Norwegian culture and will ask the Norwegian Parliament to pledge NOK 25 million.
Margit Walsø, Director of NORLA, states: "With this pledge a significant portion of the funding can be in place, but we are not there yet.

Congratulations to translator Ursel Allenstein on winning the prestigious German award Jane Scatcherd-Preis 2019!

NORLA offers our congratulations to Audhild Solberg, winner of the 2019 ARK Children’s Book Prize for her book "The Harp"!

We congratulate the nominees for the 2020 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize

Four Norwegian crime novels among the six titles shortlisted for the 2019 Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year (published in the UK)!

Steffen Kverneland nominated for the Danish award Pingprisen 2019 for his award-winning book "A Voluntary Death" (original title: En frivillig død).

Congratulations to Mari Moen Holsve on winning the 2019 Avid Reader Award - "Bokslukerprisen"!

Jo Nesbø is shortlisted for the 2019 British Book Awards in the category Crime & Thriller for "Macbeth", translated by Don Bartlett.

Kristin Roskifte's picture book "Everybody Counts" (original title: Alle sammen teller) shortlisted for the 2019 World Illustration Awards!

"The Katharina Code" (original title: Katharina-koden) wins the Petrona Award 2019. We offer our warmest congratulations to author Jørn Lier Horst and his translator Anne Bruce!

Information about the architectural competition for design of the Norwegian pavilion as Guest of Honour at Frankfurt 2019 is available at NAL's website.

Hanne Ørstavik's novel "Love" among the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards finalists.

Congratulations to Jo Nesbø, winner of the 2019 Riverton Prize for his twelfth installment in the Harry Hole series, "Knife"!

Two Norwegian crime novels longlisted for the prestigious British 2019 CWA International Dagger Award!

We offer our warmest congratulations to Martin Aitken on winning the 2019 Pen Translation Prize for his translation of Hanne Ørstavik's novel "Love". Congratulations also to the author!

We congratulate the nominees for the 2019 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize

Congratulations to Ellen Mari Thelle, winner of the 2019 Norwegian Youth's Critic's Prize for her novel "Bernard banker på"!

We're excited to see three great Norwegian novels longlisted for the International International Dublin Literary Award 2019!

NORLA offers its warmest congratulations to Hindi-translator Teji Grover on winning the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award 2019!

NORLA offers our warmest congratulations to Lisa Aisato, winner of the 2019 Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for her picture book "Life Illustrated"!