About Nordbok

What is Nordbok?
Nordbok (Nordic Literature and Library Committee) is a committee under the Nordic Council of Ministers. It was appointed on January 1 1989 with a view to encourage the propagation of Nordic literature and to strengthen public library cooperation in the Nordic countries.

The committee consists of ten representatives from the Nordic countries who have biannual meetings.

Nordbok's secretariat is located in Oslo at ABM-utvikling - The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority for a period of three years (2003-2005).


Aims
• to ensure more inter-Nordic translations of books for children and adults
• to contribute to the increased promotion of literature in Nordic minority languages
• to support cooperation between Nordic public libraries
• to protect the Nordic community of language
• to strengthen cooperation in the library world and the world of literature between the Nordic countries, the Nordic localities and Europe
• to ensure Nordic participation in international cooperation within the field of literature and libraries


Grants
Nordbok grants financial support towards

• the inter-Nordic translation of Nordic literature
• stipends for translators
• towards literary projects, such as seminars, fairs, conferences, publications, courses for authors and translators etc.
• author's visit in public library

See the guidelines, application forms and application deadlines.

Click to see the list of book titles that have recently received translation support. You may also take a look at the projects that have been supported in 2004 and 2003.


Nordbok is also funding
• Nordic Council's literature prize
• The yearbook Nordic Literature. Read the electronical version at www.nordic-literature.org


Nordbok's other tasks
• initiate projects which will serve to extend the knowledge of Nordic literature and/or contribute to making Nordic literature in the original languages more accessible in the individual Nordic countries
• act as consultant to the Nordic Council of Ministers in the field of literature and libraries
• inform about Nordic literature and library cooperation both within the Nordic countries and outside

Read more about Nordbok's activities 2004-2005


Contact

Nordbok
ABM-utvikling
P.O.Box 8145 Dep
N-0033 Oslo

Visiting address: Observatoriegata 1b, 0254 Oslo

Phone: +47 23 11 75 00
Fax: +47 23 11 75 01
E-mail: nb@nordbok.org


Director Asbjørn Langeland:
Phone: +47 23 11 75 94
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Adviser Jenny Fossum Grønn:
Phone: +47 23 11 75 93
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