We are happy to present our selected title author Gunnar Garfors. He has written Between the Lines. Life and Death Among the Equator and the Polar Circles (original title: Mellom linjene. På liv og død langs ekvator og polarsirklane). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the autumn 2025.
This Isn’t Us
Dette er ikke oss
Music and the brain: About Music’s Magical Powers and Its Fantastic Effect on the Brain
Musikk og hjernen. Om musikkens magiske kraft og fantastiske virkning på hjernen
Sabine Richter translates fiction and non-fiction from Norwegian to German. She is originally from East Germany, but has lived and worked for very many years in Norway, as well as the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Spain and Iran. Sabine now lives in beautiful Vienna, but commutes to both Oslo and Madrid.
Her most recent translation work are two novels by Kjersti Anfinnsen, De siste kjærtegn and Øyeblikk for evigheten, which were published as one volume in January 2025: Letzte zärtliche Augenblicke (Septime Verlag).
Being Young
Til ungdommen
Never, Ever, Ever
Aldri, aldri, aldri
Next year, Norway will be Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse. Bringing forth new literary voices internationally is an important goal of the initiative. NORLA has entered into the development program, New Voices, in collaboration with Talent Norway and the Norwegian Publishers’ Association.
Group 5 of New Voices consists of the following authors:
NORLA is part of ENLIT, a network of European cultural organizations promoting literature and providing subsidies for translation. Margit Walsø has been leading the network 2019-2024.
Read more and see all members here
Norway was Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2019.
The Guest of Honour project comprised hundreds of activities in the German speaking area throughout 2019, and culminated at the book fair in October 2019.
Norway as Guest of Honour at Frankfurt Buchmesse 2019 is the country’s largest overall foreign cultural initiative. The main goals set for the initiative by NORLA were achieved. The goals were to renew the foothold of Norwegian literature in Germany, to create new international interest in Norwegian literature, to showcase Norway as a modern cultural nation and to revitalize the relationship between Norway and Germany through cooperation on literary and cultural projects.
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. We continued our focus on poetry with a new series, Poem of the Week, which, as it did last time, followed a narrative linked to the seasons. The selection was made by Annette Vonberg.
The Year of My Awakening（我的觉醒之年）
Det året eg våkna. Kva skjer med naturen – og oss?
On March 14, the great Norwegian writer Dag Solstad passed away at the age of 83.
Fiddle Fever
Felefeber
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.
The Translator of the Month for February is the comparative literary scholar, editor and translator Johanna Domokos. She is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts at Károli University in Budapest, and the coordinator of the Translation and Book Production Laboratory at the University of Bielefeld’s Faculty of Language and Literature. Together with her students – who studied Sámi language just for the projects- she published about a dozen books of Sámi and Nordic literature in German, English. For the 2019 Bookf Fair in Frankfurt together with Chsritine Schlosser and Michael Riessler they publish the first comprehensive anthology of Sami poetry translated into German. Their work is supported by NORLA.
The aim of NORLA’s translation subsidy is to contribute to increasing the number of books from Norway that are translated, published and distributed abroad. The criteria for the translation subsidy have now been reviewed by NORLA’s board and updated accordingly.
Today is the Sami National Day, and everyone at NORLA offers our warmest congratulations to all our Sami friends and the Sami people: Læhkoeh biejjine – Vuorbbe biejvijn – Lihkku beivviin – Gratulerer med dagen!
Today is the Sami National Day, and everyone at NORLA offers our warmest congratulations to all our Sami friends and the Sami people: Læhkoeh biejjine – Vuorbbe biejvijn – Lihkku beivviin – Gratulerer med dagen!