The Norwegian Non-fiction Writers And Translators Association (NFF)

The Norwegian Non-fiction Writers And Translators Association (NFF) is an organization for writers and translators of all kinds of non-fiction literature. Membership is open to writers and translators who have published at least 100 pages of non-fiction, and the association has approximately 5300 members.

NFF secures and protects the professional and economic interests of authors and translators by negotiating contracts and agreements with public and private institutions.  

The European Commission sets up a Reflection Group on digitisation

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has announced that the European Commission will set up a reflection group on the digitisation of cultural works.

Maurice Lévy (CEO of French communications company Publicis), Elisabeth Niggemann (Head of the German National Library) and Jacques De Decker (Belgian writer and journalist) will be entrusted to come up with recommendations on how best to speed up the digitisation, online accessibility and preservation of cultural works across Europe.

The standard contract for non-fiction writers

Both the agreement regarding the standard contract and the contract itself have been translated to English, and can be downloaded in PDF format here.