Frankfurt 2019 - Norway as Guest of Honour

Agnes Ravatn surrounded by some of her international publishers.

Frankfurt Book Fair 2019 was special this year with Norway as the Guest of Honour.
This meant a program with a lot of of authors from Northern Stories participating

Nov 25, 2019

From Northern Stories participated Camara Lundestad Joof, Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen, Jon Larsen, Torolf Kroglund and Agnes Ravatn.
And it was all a huge success according to NORLA with a lot of media attention and an increase in number of visitors. For the agents, it was a week as usual, a week filled with meetings, this time we were all placed in The Festhalle.
To read the report on Norway as the Guest of Honour, have a look here.

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