Randi Fuglehaug, Anne Gunn Halvorsen
Prince Charming
Drømmeprinsen
Søk etter “children's”
Anna Fiske
The River
Elven
Erlend Loe, Kim Hiorthøy (ill.)
The Kurt-Series
Kurt
Gudrun Skretting
Anton and Other Accidents
Anton og andre uhell
Jørn Lier Horst
The Clue Series
Clue-Serien
See the nominees for the 2022 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize
Arne Svingen
Extraordinary Edgar
Unike Edgar
Randi Fuglehaug
Diva Diaries
Tonedød
Linde Hagerup, Jens A. Larsen Aas (ill.)
One Friend Too Few
En venn for lite
Guy Puzey - Translator of the Month
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.
Norway is the Guest of Honour of the Book Fair in Warsaw 2022
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.
Nora Dåsnes is the winner of the 2022 Aschehoug Children's Book Prize. Congratulations!
Ingebjørg Berg Holm
Raging Bear
Rasende binne
Deniz Canefe Sahin - Translator of the Month
January’s Translator of the Month is Deniz Canefe Sahin, who translates both fiction and non-fiction from Norwegian and English to Turkish. She has studied at Hacettepe Universitesi in Ankara and at the University of Oslo. And Deniz has translated more than 40 Norwegian titles by authors like Jon Fosse, Dag Solstad, Tarjei Vesaas, Ola Bauer, Per Petterson, Ingvar Ambjørnsen (the Pelle and Proffen series for young adults and the Samson & Roberto series for children), Eugene Schoulgin, Thorvald Steen and Roy Jacobsen. This year, she will translate Armand V by Dag Solstad and The Eyes of Rigel by Roy Jacobsen. She will also translate Henrik Ibsen’s collected works in cooperation with Haydar Sahin.
Deniz enjoys working with books that are written with a sense of humour and that illuminate the world from different perspectives. She lives in Oslo.
"Everyone Has a Backside" by Anna Fiske and "The Morning Star" by Karl Ove Knausgård are nominated for the 2021 The Adlibris Awards in Sweden
Selma Lønning Aarø
Right to Privacy
Privatlivets fred
Congratulations to Arne Svingen, winner of the 2021 ARK Children’s Book Prize for his book "Snitch"!
Five Norwegian books among this year's White Ravens
“The White Ravens” offers 200 notable children’s and young adult books, selected by the International Youth Library in Munich.
The books come from 54 countries and are published in 38 languages.
Among the 200 selected books five are from Norway:
Inger Merete Hobbelstad, Stella East (ill.)
Greek Myths. Gods and Heroes in Ancient Times
De greske mytene. 2 Guder og helter fra de gamle fortellingene
Inger Merete Hobbelstad, Stella East (ill.)
Greek Myths. Gods and Heroes in Ancient Times
De greske mytene. Guder og helter fra de gamle fortellingene