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NORDBOK
home3.jpgNORDBOK promotes Nordic literature within and outside the Nordic countries,
and offers translation grants, and grants for projects organized by public libraries, organisations, institutions etc.


Contact information
NORDBOK,
POB 8145-Dep.
N-0033 Oslo,
Norway.
Tel: +47 23 11 75 00,
Fax: +47 23 11 75 01,
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Web-site: www.nordbok.org

Business languages
Scandinavian languages and English

Mission
Promote Nordic literature within and outside the Nordic countries,
Translation grants,
Grants for projects organized by public libraries, organisations, institutions etc.

Target audience
Publishers, libraries, authors, translators and people working in the field of literature.

Organizational structure
A permanent comittee under the Nordic Council of Ministers (an international governmental organisation)

Services offered
Economic suport, public relations.

Grants
Grants for publishers and scholarships for translators

Supported languages
Danish,
Faeroese,
Finnish,
Greenlandic,
Icelandic,
Norwegian,
Sami,
Swedish,
Estonian,
Latvian,
Lithuanian,
Russian

Sources of Funding
All funding come from the Nordic Council of Ministers

Internet
web sites: www.nordbok.org and www.nordic-literature.org

Director
Asbjorn Langeland, cand.mag. - library science and law studies (copyright law and municipality law), Former director general of the Norwegian directorate for public libraries.

Contact person for this project
Asbjorn Langeland,
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Size of staff
two and a half: director, adviser and secretary.

Level of English language skills
Good
 
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