Arne & Carlos and NORLA to attend the Seoul International Book Fair

This year NORLA will attend the Seoul International Book Fair for the first time. Arne & Carlos’ knitting books have taken South Korea by storm and there are great expectations surrounding the authors’ visit this year.

Read more about Arne & Carlos here.

Read more (in Korean) about the visit on website of the Norwegian Embassy in Seoul here.

See the covers of Norwegian books published in South Korea through NORLA’s translation subsidies since 2011 here.

(Photo: From the cover of the duo’s book Strikk fra Setesdal, published by Cappelen Damm, 2013. Read more about the book (in Norwegian) here).

Upcoming activities

June 16-June 19

Oslo, Norway

Fellowship in Oslo (Non-fiction literature)

NORLA has the pleasure of inviting foreign publishers and editors of non-ficiton literature to apply for our fellowship program, which this year will take place in Oslo from June 16 – 19.

August 1

Application deadline: Author and lecturer visits to institutions of higher learning abroad

NORLA administrates the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ scheme for travel grants for authors and lecturers who will visit institutions of higher learning abroad where instruction is given in the Norwegian language.

September 1

Application deadline: Sample translation of Norwegian literature

Publishers, agents and translators abroad and in Norway can apply to NORLA for subsidies for sample translations.