The Norwegian Bastian Prizes for Outstanding Literary Translation were announced September 29th on occasion of International Translation Day. The Bastian Prizes 2022 was awarded to Kirsti Vogt and Hilde Stubhaug, the latter in the category for children and young adult literary translation.
International conference in Prague. Northern Wind of Change: Improving the working conditions of literary translators
The 2021 Skjønnlitterære Oversetterfonds prize goes to our former delegate Ika Kaminka
Awarding of the Bastian Prize 2020 for translated literature into Norwegian
Tracing history through translation: International workshop on translation history in Oslo, Norway
Frankfurt homage inspires Czech translators to join forces in an open letter to publishers
Awarding of the 2019 Bastian Prize 2019 for translated literature into Norwegian
Call for applications: ‘Translating the North’ into Italian (deadline: 15 July 2018)

StradeLab, a cultural association linked with SLC-Strade, is organising ‘Laboratorio Nordico – Translating the North’, the first peer-to-peer seminar for literary translators from Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish into Italian. The seminar is funded by the Danish Arts Foundation, Icelandic Literature Center, Norla and the Swedish Arts Council. […]
Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for 2016 for the translation of non-fiction literature awarded to Oda Myran Winsnes

Oda Myran Winsnes has been awarded the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for 2016 for her Norwegian translation of Samar Yazbek’s The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria. The prize, which is awarded each year by the Norwegian Booksellers’ Association and the Norwegian Non-fiction Writers and Translators Association (NFF), goes to a newly established translator of non-fiction who has produced a high quality translation of a new work of non-fiction literature. Oda Myran Winsnes was awarded the prize and a cheque for NOK 50,000 (EUR 6,250) at this year’s International Translation Day celebrations in Oslo on 29 September 2016. […]
NORLA’s Translator’s Award 2016 goes to Nargis Shinkarenko

The Russian translator Nargis Shinkarenko is the recipient of NORLA’s 2016 Translator’s Award for her translations of non-fiction literature from Norwegian into Russian. The announcement was made on 29 September in Oslo, during the celebration of International Translation Day and the feast of St. Jerome. The award, now in its 11th year, is given annually and on an alternating basis to talented translators of fiction and non-fiction and is intended as a measure to encourage the promotion of Norwegian literature. […]
Bastian translation awards for Kristina Solum and Stian Omland

During International Translation Day celebrations in Oslo on 29 September 2016, the Bastian Prize for Outstanding Literary Translation, the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators’ (Norsk Oversetterforening) annual translation prize, was awarded to Kristina Solum for her translation of Roberto Bolano’s 2666. […]
NORLA’s Translator’s Award 2015 goes to Bulgarian literary translator Eva Kaneva

The Bulgarian literary translator Eva Kaneva is the recipient of NORLA’s 2015 Translator’s Award for her translations from Norwegian into Bulgarian. The announcement was made on 1 October, just after International Translation Day and the feast of St Jerome. The award, now in its tenth year, is given annually to a translator of Norwegian literature and was established to raise awareness of the contribution made by foreign translators. […]
Pessoa-loving publisher turns ‘Book of Disquiet’ into a bestseller and honours its Norwegian translator
Pessoa-loving publisher turns book into bestseller and honours Norwegian translator.
Bastian Translation Awards to Knut Ofstad and Carina Westberg
The Bastian Translation Prizes have been awarded in Norway.
CEATL welcomes new member associations from Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Norway
CEATL welcomes new member associations from Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Norway.