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14-04-2008

The Zest for Reading – Lost in translation?

By means of the project ’The Zest for Reading – Lost in Translation?’ (’ Leselyst - Lost in translation?’), the Association !read (!les) would like to encourage positive meetings between young people with a multicultural background and literature.

For this reading project the Association !read has been granted support from Arts Council Norway. Within the framework of the project, young people who represent the three biggest non-Western language groups in Norway will be invited to the House of Literature (Litteraturhuset) in Oslo on three Fridays in April.

Famous Norwegian writers who have an immigrant background will present their own literature and texts written by others in Pakistani, Arabian and Somalian respectively. The participants will also be able to listen to a lecture in ’Kebab Norwegian’. The experience from these three meetings is going to be very useful when the project will be expanded to become a national campaign in the autumn.

Edited by Kirsten Verling kirsten.verling@abm-utvikling.no

!read: Oversetter leselysten (’Translation and the zest for reading’, in Norwegian)
 
Dagbladet: Banebrytende prosjekt (’Pioneering Project’, in Norwegian)