NORLA, Norwegian Literature Abroad, Fiction and Non-Fiction is a government-funded, non-profit organization which promotes Norwegian literature abroad. Nearly 3000 books by Norwegian authors have been published in 60 languages with translation subsidies and grants from NORLA since 1978. NORLA also provides information about new Norwegian literary works and Norwegian Literature events around the world.
Siamese by
A brutally comic portrait of marriage, taken to extremes reminiscent of the work of Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard.
Contemporary Norwegian Women's Writing by
Novels, short stories, drama, and poetry are all represented in this collection covering the years 1970 to 1995. Many of the selections deal with women's attitudes about their own sexuality; others deal with their place in society. Some of the topics
Replacement by
Replacement, Ulven's only novel, is a miniature symphony, uniting the perspectives of fifteen unrelated characters into what seems a single narrative voice, dramatizing the tension between concrete realities and our interior lives.
The Cold Song by
One of New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2014! Ullmann's characters are complex and paradoxical: neither fully guilty nor fully innocent. Siri, chef married to Jon, famous novelist, spend a summer in family mansion on Norway's coast. Their marriage is loving but troubled by painful secrets. Their nanny goes missing unfolding a haunting tragedy upon the seaside community. The Cold Song is a story about telling stories and about how life is continually invented and reinvented.
The Discoverer by
The Discoverer finds Jonas released from prison, having completed his sentence for the death of his wife. He his aboard the Voyager, a ship which is exploring the longest fjord in the world, along with his estranged daughter. Onboard, he explores his past, telling his own version of what happened the fateful night of his wife's death.
From the Mouth of the Whale by Icelandic writer Sjón discusses "modern folk tales and shifting Icelandic identity, and asks: 'Who wants to be a music-loving elf for ever?'" (The Guardian)
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The Norwegian author discusses the latest edition of his multi-volume autobiography, My Struggle on Live From the New York Public Library.
Works by Karl Ove Knausgård at Fordham University Libraries:
My Struggle - PT8951.21.N38 M5613 2012 - 2 copies available at Lincoln Center and Rose Hill
My Struggle. Book two: A man in love - PT8951.21.N38 M5613 2013 - 2 copies available at Lincoln Center and Rose Hill
My Struggle. Book three: Boyhood - PT8951.21.N38 M5613 2014B - 2 copies available at Lincoln Center and Rose Hill
My Struggle. Book four - PT8951.21.N38 M5613 2015B - 2 copies available at Lincoln Center and Rose Hill
Norwegian author Per Petterson, author of I Refuse, Out Stealing Horses, I Curse the River of Time, It’s Fine By Me, In the Wake and To Siberia in conversation with Paul Holdengräber on Live from the New York Public Library.
Works by Per Petterson at Fordham University Libraries:
I Refuse
PT8951.26.E88 I2613 2015 - 2 copies available at Lincoln Center and Rose Hill
Out Stealing Horses
PT8951.26.E88 O9813 2007 - 2 copies available at Lincoln Center and Rose Hill
I Curse the River of Time
PT8951.26.E88 J4413 2010 - 1 copy available at Rose Hill
To Siberia
PT8951.26.E88 T5513 2008 - 1 copy available at Lincoln Center
PT8951.26.E88 T5513 1998 - 1 copy available at Rose Hill
In the Wake
PT8951.26.E88 I5613 2006 - 1 copy available at Lincoln Center
PT8951.26.E88 I5613 2002 - 1 copy available at Rose Hill
Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am by
The highly acclaimed debut of one of Norway's brightest talents. Originally published in Norwegian as Jo Fortere Jeg Gar, Jo Mindre Er Jeg by Forlaget Oktober A/S, 2009.
Kjersti Skomsvold reads a passage from The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am at Cúirt International Literature Festival
The Greenlanders by
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley’s The Greenlanders is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas.Set in the fourteenth century in Europe’s most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, The Greenlanders is the story of one family–proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful independence leads her into passionate adultery and exile; and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling center of this unforgettable book. Jane Smiley takes us into this world of farmers, priests, and lawspeakers, of hunts and feasts and long-standing feuds, and by an act of literary magic, makes a remote time, place, and people not only real but dear to us.
Warrener's Beastie by
In this magnificent modern rendering of a classic Norse myth, award-winning writer William Trotter transports the reader to faraway Vardinoy in the exotic Faeroe Islands, the remote Scandinavian locale that has bewitched Allen Warrener since his first and only visit there twenty years before. Now middle-aged, Allen decides that to revitalize his wearisome existence he must return to Vardinoy, the island that has haunted and inspired him for most of his life — and so wanders unwittingly into circumstances far more sinister, and potentially far more dangerous, than he ever could have supposed. Among the many temptations and risks of this increasingly mystifying land there is the creature, the legendary undersea monster that becomes a metaphor as captivatingly elusive as the Golden Fleece; Andreas Dahl, a famous painter, whose appearance on the island seems too fortuitous a coincidence; and Elsuba, the woman who still mesmerizes Allen even decades after their affair. Uncommonly suspenseful and richly atmospheric, Warrener's Beastie is a hypnotic literary adventure that will entrance readers — even as it reminds them to be careful about what they wish for.
Iceland's Bell by
Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland’s Bell by Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire. At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king’s hangman. In the years that follow, the hapless but resilient rogue Hreggvidsson becomes a pawn entangled in political and personal conflicts playing out on a far grander scale. As their personal struggle plays itself out on an international stage, Iceland’s Bell creates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and tragedy, charged with narrative enchantment on every page.
Growth of the Soil by
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature. When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian backcountry, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the distinguished Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Growth of the Soil is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power-and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
The Deleted World by
A short selection of haunting, meditative poems from the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. Tomas Tranströmer can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden’s most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: drawn again and again to thresholds of light and of water, the boundaries between man and nature, wakefulness and dream. A deeply spiritual but secular writer, his skepticism about humanity is continually challenged by the implacable renewing power of the natural world. His poems are epiphanies rooted in experience: spare, luminous meditations that his extraordinary images split open—exposing something sudden, mysterious, and unforgettable.
Centering on the Peripheries by
These 16 essays trace ways to tell the stories of connection, boundaries, and localities in the literatures of the island, borderlands, and landscapes of the North and Baltic Seas.
Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries by
"Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries" presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multicultural literature. Focusing on the development of migration literature in Sweden, Denmark, Flanders, and the Netherlands, the volume argues that the political and institutional preconditions for the development of 'multicultural' literatures are still given within the frame of the nation-state. As a consequence, both the field of 'migration literature' and the (multi-)lingual quality of literary texts are shaped differently in each state and in each language area.
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