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We are happy to offer insightful interviews with the authors and illustrators of our 24 Selected Titles of the spring.
We invite you to get better aquainted with the books and also the people who wrote and illustrated them!

We are happy to offer insightful interviews with the authors and illustrators of our 24 Selected Titles of the spring.
Get better aquainted with the books and also the people who wrote and illustrated them!

We are happy to present our selected title author Maria Parr and illustrator Åshild Irgens. Together they have made Oskar and Me, and All the Things We Have (Original Title: Oskar og eg. Alle tinga vi har). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the autumn 2025.

We are happy to offer 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 also the people who wrote and illustrated them!

Maria Parr turns towards the nearest things in her new book Oskar and me. – This is my homage to the normal every day, and everything it contains, she says.

We are happy to present our selected title author Annika Linn Verdal Homme. She has written Lava. The story of how everything that once felt solid suddenly became fluid (original title: Lava. Historien om hvordan alt som var fast, plutselig ble flytende). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the autumn 2025.

In April 2026, Norway will be Guest of Honour at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the world’s largest book fair dedicated to children’s and young adult literature. The Guest of Honour project offers a unique opportunity to showcase Norwegian literature for young readers and to highlight the high artistic quality of illustration from Norway.

The illustration exhibition will cover approximately 330 m², located prominently at the fairgrounds.

Cappelen Damm Agency

Cappelen Damm Agency is the in-house agency of Norway’s largest publishing house, publishing approximately 1,000 titles a year, within the genres of fiction, non-fiction, educational books and children’s books. We represent some of Norway’s leading contemporary authors.

NO-0055 Oslo
Tel: +47 21 61 65 00
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Rights Director Mrs Ingvild Haugland Blatt – Tel: +47 414 10 647
Literary Agent Mrs Anette Slettbakk Garpestad – Tel: +47 984 82 087
Literary Agent Mr Håkon Dalsbø – Tel: +47 40471889
Rights Consultant Ms Sunniva Midtskogen – Tel: +47 984 64 940.
(On leave: Literary Agent Mrs Ida Amalie Svensson – Tel: +47 977 50 106)

Egmont Kids Media – Norway

P.O. Box 4684 Nydalen
NO-0405 Oslo
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Business Area Manager Grethe Kristensen – Tel: +47 917 96 178

Gyldendal Agency

Representing foreign rights for: Gyldendal Barn og Ungdom, Gyldendal Litteratur, Kolon Forlag.

P.O. Box 6860 St. Olavs plass
NO-0130 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 03 41 00
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Fiction and children/young adults:
Foreign Rights Director Mrs Anne Cathrine Eng – Tel: +47 957 81 640
Literary Agent Mrs Nina Pedersen – Tel: +47 924 47 665
Film &TV rights Mrs Kirsti Kristoffersen
Academic books: Ms Vibeke Høegh-Omdal – Tel: +47 415 53 713
Schoolbooks, textbooks and other educational material: Mr Vegard Østhagen

Immaterial Agents

IMMA is a Norwegian literary representing Nordic authors mainly – but every rule has an exception. Working with fiction (adult, YA and children’s) and relevant non-fiction. IMMA also keep an eye open for good TV and film material and specialise in screen adaption material.

Mrs Trude Kolaas
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Magikon forlag

Fjellveien 48A
NO-1410 Kolbotn
Tel.: +47 977 50 060
Mr Svein Størksen
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Northern Stories

Northern Stories is an independent literary agency representing Nordic writers, with a fine mix of established profiles and promising authors. We represent authors in the genres of literary fiction, young adults and non-fiction.

Geitmyrsveien 7C
NO-0171 Oslo
Ms Astrid Dalaker – Tel: +47 99 69 19 50
Ms"Dilani Vamapahan":mailto:dilani@northernstories.no
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Oslo Literary Agency

Oslo Literary Agency is Norway’s biggest literary agency, representing authors in the genres of literary fiction, children’s books, young adult, and non-fiction. The agency work with translation rights across all genres, film rights and dramatization rights.

P.O. Box 363 Sentrum
NO-0102 Oslo
Tel: + 47 22 40 04 00
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Rights Director: Mr Even Råkil – Tel: +47 90 02 44 97
Literary Agent, Children/YA: Mrs Evy Tillman – Tel: +47 952 24 408
Literary Agent, Oktober (fiction): Mr Henrik Francke – Tel: +47 913 53 922

Saga Literary Agency

Saga Literary Agency is an independent in-house literary agency for children’s books published by Det Norske Samlaget.

Tel: +47 45 25 51 10
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Stilton Literary Agency

Fougners vei 14B
NO-0571 Oslo

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Mr Hans Petter Bakketeig – Tel: +47 47 67 47 59
Mrs Leyla Körner Øier – Tel: +47 91 34 70 57

TNT, an imprint of Bonnier Norsk Forlag

Universitetsgata 20
NO-0162 Oslo

Editor/Literary Agent: Ms Tonje Tornes – Tel.: +47 92 86 93 74
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Winje Agency

Winje Agency, founded 2016, is representing authors of high quality in all genres, and publication rights for the Nobel Prize Winner in Literature 2023, Jon Fosse.

Skiensgate 12
NO-3912 Porsgrunn
Tel: + 47 91 84 11 50
Mrs Gina Winje
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(Updated: October 2025)

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).

What if up were down?

What if the outside were the inside?

What if I were you?

NORLA’s translation subsidies are intended to encourage foreign publishers to publish books by Norwegian and Sami authors of fiction and non-fiction. Publishers from the entire world, including from the Nordic region, can apply for NORLA’s subsidies for translations of Norwegian literature.

Please use our online application form.

Also please note that our 50% guarantee regarding Norwegian books for children and YA applies through the application deadline February 1, 2026. Read more

We at NORLA are both proud and delighted to present our Selected Titles for the Autumn:

25 wonderful books which are divided into fiction and non-fiction, for both adults, children and young adults.
See all the Selected Titles below