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Norway to be Guest of Honour at Leipzig Book Fair 2025

Norway has been offered the opportunity to be Guest of Honour at Leipzig Book Fair 2025. This is a golden chance for Norwegian literature in its breadth to reach German readers. Together with the fair the literature festival Leipzig Reads will be happening, filling the city with 3000 events in 350 different venues throughout four days. This makes the festival the biggest of its kind in Europe, placing the joy of reading and the audience in the foreground.

The Norwegian book industry

Bjørn F. Rørvik

The Three Billy Goats Gruff at the Water Park
Bukkene Bruse på badeland

Genre: Children and Young Adults
Category: Picture Book (Vol. I in a series)
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Year: 2009
Pages: 48
ISBN: 9788202295882
English translation available

Espen Dekko

P+E
P+E

Genre: Children and Young Adults
Category: Picture Book
Publisher: Magikon
Year: 2017
Pages: 40
ISBN: 9788292863732
English sample translation available

Birger Emanuelsen

Love and Anna
Anna og kjærligheten

Genre: Fiction
Category: Novel
Publisher: Tiden
Year: 2016
Pages: 204
English, Czech and German sample translation available

Andreas Tjernshaugen

Whale Tale. How we hunted the world's largest animal to the brink of extinction
Hvaleventyret. Hvordan vi nesten utryddet det største dyret som har levd

Genre: Non-Fiction
Category: History
Publisher: Kagge Forlag
Year: 2018
Pages: 344
English sample translation available

Thomas Reinertsen Berg

Theatre of the World
Verdensteater. Kartenes historie

Genre: Non-Fiction
Category: Cultural History
Publisher: Forlaget Press
Year: 2017
Pages: 351
English edition available

Jan Grue

I Live a Life Like Yours
Jeg lever et liv som ligner deres

Genre: Non-Fiction
Category: Essay
Publisher: Gyldendal
Year: 2018
Pages: 176
English sample translation available

Ida Lødemel Tvedt

Drafts from the Mariana Trench
Marianegropen

Genre: Non-fiction
Category: Essays
Publisher: Gyldendal
Year: 2019
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9788205516991

Unni Eikeseth

Finding Places, The Search for the Brain's GPS
Jakten på stedsansen

Genre: Non-Fiction
Category: General non-fiction
Publisher: Vigmostad og Bjørke
Year: 2018
Pages: 182
ISBN: 9788241912375

Wendy H. Gabrielsen - Translator of the Month for February

Originally from London, Wendy H. Gabrielsen moved to Oslo after completing an MA in translation in 1987, and was lucky enough to translate her first two Norwegian books just two years later. After getting “sidetracked” teaching English for a couple of decades, she resigned from the French School in Oslo in 2020 and has since returned to translating and copy editing full time.

Poem of the Week. 52 poems through the year

Poem of the Week is back!

In 2019, NORLA launched the project, Poem of the Week, 52 poems throughout the year, in connection with Norway being Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, where modern and older poetry was presented every week to an attentive international audience.
We are now continuing our focus on poetry with a new series, Poem of the Week, which, as it did last time, follows a narrative linked to the seasons. The selection is made by Annette Vonberg.

Ingeborg Arvola

The Knife in the Fire - Ruijan rannalla/Songs from the Arctic Ocean
Kniven i ilden. Ruijan rannalla / Sanger fra Ishavet

Genre: Fiction
Category: Novel (Vol. I in a series)
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Year: 2022
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9788202762742
English sample and synopsis translation 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

Jørn Lier Horst

سفيرة الأدب النرويجي (Ambassador for Norwegian literature)

تحب صاحبة السمو الملكي الأميرة ميتَّه ماريت القراءة وتتحمس للكتب، وتحرص على مشاركة حبها للقراءة ونشر
.الأدب الجيد، وتؤمن إيمانًا راسخًا بوجود كتاب مناسب لكل شخص

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