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New joint Nordic school platform - www.nordeniskolan.org/
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Jul 27, 2012
The Norden Association presents its joint Nordic school platform, www.nordeniskolan.org.
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Programme for the Nordic stand at the book fair
 
The missing dialogue
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Sep 27, 2012
Why are there so few translations of non-fiction between the Nordic countries?
New Nordic Food with a Taste of Skåne
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Aug 27, 2012
About 10 chefs from Skåne will attend the launch of the Nordic stand at the Book Fair and will offer New Nordic Food with a Taste of Skåne. This is thanks to a co-operation between Culinary Skåne, the Taste of Skåne project and New Nordic Food.
Shabana - barrier-breaking provocateur
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Aug 27, 2012
 
Cultural policy - a tool for identity and diversity in the Nordic Region?
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Aug 27, 2012
Democracy, openness and inclusion are central to the public debate in the Nordic countries at this time of globalisation, migration and multi-cultural change.
ICA Jerry meets the Minister of Culture and others.
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Aug 27, 2012
One in five in the Nordic countries has some kind of disability. This group of people never used to be seen in the media but things have changed in recent years.
Photo exhibition Normlöst
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Sep 27, 2012
See pictures which challenge the traditional view of people with disabilities.
Dancing Queen – a premiere
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Sep 27, 2012
Welcome to DanceAbility Finland's dance performance ”Dancing Queen”. The performance is a special production for the Göteborg Book Fair and demonstrates that when people with learning disabilities take part in cultural life they bring a dimension to the art which cannot be found in any other way.
Immigrant Danish minister writes children's books
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Sep 27, 2012
Manu Sareen, is the Minister for Gender Equality and Ecclesiastical Affairs and Minister for Nordic Co-operation in Denmark. He is a member of the centre Social Liberal Party.
New look at Icelandic Sagas
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Sep 27, 2012
For the last few years one of Nordic literature's biggest translation projects has been going on. This is a common translation of the Icelandic family sagas which will make them more accessible for a new generation of readers.
Nordic crime - with Åsa Larsson, Sweden, and Sara Blædel, Denmark
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
Two Nordic queens of crime meet for a discussion about their writing. Åsa Larsson is a qualified lawyer and still tops best seller lists with her dark but human, warm and intelligent crime novels from Norrbotten, starring the tough but fragile district prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson. Her latest book is called 'The Sacrifice to Molok'.
Marianne meets Merethe Lindstrøm, the winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2012
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Sep 27, 2012
 
Curious about your neighbours - or are they too close?
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
Anthropologist Dennis Nørmark and historian Hanne Sanders meet for a discussion of the differences between Denmark and Sweden.
Finnish pupils the cleverest in the Region - myth or truth?
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Sep 27, 2012
Why do pupils in Finland have such good results? Do the differences from the other Nordic countries mean that Finnish pupils really are cleverer?
From invisibility to media darlings
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
Welcome to a conversation with Mats Melin, known amongst other things for the character ”ICA-Jerry” and the film ”The Importance of Tying Your Own Shoes” and Birgit Skarstein, from the Norwegian edition of "Against all odds".
Photo exhibition Normlöst
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
 
How will we face the challenges of global climate change in the Nordic Region?
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
From knowledge to action: Climate change requires us to do something now! What is stopping us from taking action? Are humans ruining the planet?
The Nordic Region is splendid
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
The Nordic Region is old-fashioned. The Nordic Region has been left behind in history at a time when the EU and Europe and Globalisation are taking over. Forget the Nordic countries.
Creative Industries – Nordic innovation
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
On the stand we will show examples of innovative visualisation techniques and talk about the climate for Nordic Innovation.
Female composers – rarely acclaimed!
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
This year Icelandic Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, an internationally recognised composer, won the Nordic Council Music Prize 2012 for her work 'Dreaming'. Thorvaldsdóttir uses orchestral music as electronic music and is inspired by the natural sounds in Nordic folk music. She will join us via Skype from Australia where she is just now.
Phone yourself in the future!
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
 
The Literature Prize, is it worth the price?
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
 
Poetry slam
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
 
The Nordic Region - and then what?
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
The Nordic Council has given the University of Helsinki Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS) the task of following up on the renewed political debate initiated by, amongst other things, Thorvald Stoltenberg's and Gunnar Wetterberg's reports.
Marianne meets Rosa Liksom in Kupé nr 6
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
Rosa Liksom, pseudonym for Anni Ylävaara, born 1958 in Finnish Lapland is a Finnish writer who is also an artist, dramatist and cartoonist.
Send young people to Norway - one way of solving youth unemployment?
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
What can actually be done about Nordic youth unemployment?
The path from education to work - preventing drop outs
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
Finland and Sweden have the highest youth unemployment in the Nordic countries. Those most at risk are young people who have interrupted their studies in secondary education for entrance qualification to college or vocational schools.
Nordic murders
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
In recent years Nordic crime fiction has met with great international success. However, its history in the Nordic countries dates back to the 19th century and it made its breakthrough already by the turn of the century.
Life in Greenland in short cut-technique
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
Kim Leine was born in Norway. At the age of 17 he moved to Denmark and later to Greenland where he has worked as a nurse for ten years.
Award for the best translator!
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
For the first time the Letterstedt Society's Nordic translation prize is awarded from the Nyhlén funds. The prize is worth SEK 50,000.
Two centuries n the Faroe Islands
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
"A soldier came from Hordaland to Tórshavn in 1837. It has fatal consequences."
Marianne Rundström meets Hanne Vibeke Holst
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
Hanne-Vibeke Holst is a Danish writer and journalist. She is known, amongst other things, for her trilogy about Therese and a series about political life in Denmark, which was also filmed for SVT.
Nordic genealogy and local heritage
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
People in the Nordic Region come from other countries and have moved around between the countries. Nordic values and identities are the result of many influences from outside and between people in the Nordic countries.
Marianne meets Einar Már Guðmundsson
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
Einar Már Guðmundsson is an Icelandic writer, born 1954, who was awarded the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize in 2012.
How do journalists look at the Nordic Region?
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
What image do we convey to our neighbours in the Nordic media? Is there even any interest for Nordic news amongst the media in the Nordic countries today or do we turn our sights more towards the rest of the world?
If the Nordic countries were at war
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
Imagine that there was war – not in Iraq or in Afghanistan or some other distant land – but here in Europe, in Sweden, here in the Nordic countries. 'If the Nordic countries were at war' ('Om det var krig i Norden') is a little book, passport size, where the reader is invited into a real thought experiment.
Whose freedom of speech will we defend?
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
After last year's dramatic events - a suicide bomber in Stockholm and a massacre in Norway - we have realised that the Nordic countries are not the welfare idyll that we have long believed. Populists and extremists have exploited new arenas in which everyone has the opportunity to express themselves.
Turku+ Umeå+ Århus = Nordic Capitals of Culture
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
The European Capital of Culture is an annual EU event. The purpose is to highlight the common cultural heritage and celebrate the cultural richness in the European countries. The city is chosen by an international panel of experts and through national "competitions" between the cities.
Nordic online
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
How have the Nordic borders been affected by the breakthrough of Social Media? Does this mean that English will become the standard language for communication that wipes out the Nordic language community?
The Norwegian welfare state in 1965
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
Anne B Ragde's trilogy of novels Berlin Poplars was very successful in book form and also as a television series. In the novel 'Jag ska göra dig så lycklig' she paints a picture of life in an apartment block in Trondheim in 1965. Eight families - happiness, joy and optimism but also strong social control.
Where nobody would think anyone could live
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
The second book, which builds on the popular television series of the same name which was also broadcast by SVT over several seasons, is now coming out. The author Oddgeir Bruaset will be interviewed on his work in describing places in Norway which arouse both admiration and fascination for people who live on the outskirts of the outskirts.
Women's literature online
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
Surf your way through 1000 years of Nordic women's literature!
Marianne meets Ebba Witt-Brattström - is she leaving Sweden for Finland?
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
Ebba Witt-Brattström is well-known as a commentator, literary scholar and professor. Most recently she has published 'Å alla kära systrar' on the women's movement in the 1970s. Witt-Brattström's parents came to Sweden as refugees during the Second World War. Her father was from Germany and her mother from Estonia.
The book that attracts non-readers
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
Fewer and fewer men read books. According to Statistics Sweden from 2010, 28 per cent of men read no books at all. A survey of Nordic pupils reading habits also showed that more boys are losing the love of reading.
Can what we eat make us healthy and clever?
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
How can a healthy diet prevent illness and chronic diseases? You are what you eat is an old saying.
Freedom of movement in literature
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Sep 27, 2012
A largely common language is said to be important for a sense of community in the Nordic countries, which is a pre-condition for Nordic co-operation. Yet we allow obstacles for freedom of movement to prevent us from reading each other’s books.
The Nordic Region in 50 years
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
We have just now received from this stage at the Nordic stand figures of what has happened in the Nordic Region in the last 50 years.
Meet the Literature Prize winner and the Nordic ministers!
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Sep 27, 2012
We will take a break in the programme at the Nordic stand. We encourage you instead to attend the grand opening of the whole Book Fair. It will be super Nordic too.
Culture and Food at the stand!
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Sep 27, 2012
Now it is time to open our own stand, and some of the leading politicians in the Nordic Region will welcome us to the Nordic Region at the Book Fair.
Goodbye oil
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
All the plastic in the construction of the Nordic stand should actually have been used to make lids for jars. However, according to the concept Re-use, the architect Anna Berencreutz has made the lamps and wall out of those instead.
More has happened that you think
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
The Nordic Statistical Yearbook is a bestseller whose figures make headlines. It is 50 years old this year and we have therefore produced special anniversary statistics.
Marianne meets Suzanne Brøgger
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
Suzanne Brøgger, Danish writer, born 1944 in Copenhagen, but spent her childhood in Sri Lanka, Bangkok and Silkeborg in Denmark.
Svein Nyhus - Norwegian illustrator of children's books who dares to talk about the unpleasant
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
At the Book Fair today the illustrations to "Snäll" by Svein Nyhus will be handed over - a prize winning children's author and illustrator who, among other things, has written about and drawn domestic violence. He has been translated into many languages.
Marcus Samuelsson - New York's best chef
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
Marcus Samuelsson was born in a poor town in Ethiopia and grew up in Puketorp outside Göteborg. At 17, he stopped playing football and decided to focus everything on becoming a master chef. Seven years later he was named the best chef in New York City.
Norse mythology and Loki's revenge
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
Norse mythology has many similarities with the Greek and offers stories of equal drama. Interestingly, each god possesses both good and bad qualities.
Out of books - into games!
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
What will happen to Pettson, Findus, Pippi and your children when they move into the digital world?
What is happening to our Greenland?
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
Lana Hansen born 1970 in Qaqortoq in Greenland. She works freelance with cultural projects on environmental and climate change.
A historic journey round the Baltic Sea
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
The history of the Baltic Sea has been marked by both bloody wars and deep peace. Few places have such a colourful and exciting history as the Baltic.
The winner of the Nature and Environment Prize 2012
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
Olli Manninen, winner of the Nature and Environment Prize 2012, meets another strong personality in Finnish environmental work at the Nordic stand. Pekka Haavisto will discuss the future of environmental work with the prize winner.
Morning prayers
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Sep 27, 2012
Judaism has been present in the Nordic countries probably back to medieval times, but began to be seriously established in the 18th century in Sweden and Denmark.
Morning prayers
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
The origins of Christianity goes back over a thousand years in the Nordic countries, when Christianity gradually took over from the 9th century onwards.
Morning prayers
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
Sikhism is the world's fifth largest religion. It is a monotheistic religion founded in the 16th century by Guru Nanak Dev in the Punjab region in India.
Morning prayers
Date: Sep 30, 2012 to Sep 30, 2012
Islam is the second largest religion in the Nordic countries with a share of about 2.5 % of the population.
New book on language
Date: Sep 29, 2012 to Sep 29, 2012
Why can't you speak Swedish in the queue at the hot-dog stand on a Friday night in Helsinki without getting a punch in the jaw, despite the fact that Swedish is an official language in Finland?
Program för Nordens monter på mässan (pdf)
 
Who are you?
Date: Sep 28, 2012 to Sep 28, 2012
Share your thoughts about identities in the Nordic region on Twitter. Discuss with Nordic politicians and opinion formers.
Borrow a director - Pitch your Nordic cultural idea
Date: Sep 27, 2012 to Sep 27, 2012
Have you an idea for a Nordic artistic or cultural project? Do you want inspiration to move forward with your planning? Get 15 minutes of direct consultation with Director Karen Bue from the Nordic Culture Fund.

Contact

Bodil Tingsby
Phone: +45 33 96 03 57

The official book fair website
Bokmässan i Göteborg