Resources

NORLA’s collaborating partners are welcome to download our logo here.

At the bottom of this page, you may download press photos of NORLA’s Director Margit Walsø, and of NORLA’s staff.

The Norwegian book industry and key figures
See our information about the Norwegian book industry and also key figures.

Books From Norway
In 2017, NORLA launched Books from Norway, a website providing you with information in English about Norwegian literature in all genres: Fiction, Non-fiction and Children and Young Adults’ literature. The website also offers a list of translators of Norwegian literature into numerous languages.
Welcome to Books from Norway!

Covers of Norwegian books in translation
Visit Flickr to see all book covers of Norwegian books translated through translation grants from NORLA or The Nordic Council of Ministers (since 2011).
You will find the covers of all translated books in a specific languague by searching for the relvant tag, for instance English.
And you may find the covers of all translated books by a specific author by searching for the relvant tag, for instance Skomsvold.

Database of Norwegian literature in translation
An extensive database of Norwegian literature in translation is available here.
The database is operated by the National Library of Norway, and has been developed in cooperation with NORLA.

The National Library of Norway is digitizing its entire collection
The digital collection contains material dating from the Middle Ages up to the current day and the digitizing programme started in 2006. It is estimated that it will take 20–30 years for the entire collection to be digitized.
If you have a Norwegian IP-address, you may see the complete digitized collection here.

Walk in the footsteps of famous Norwegian authors
You are invited to join in!

Literary Oslo
Visit Oslo has listed ten rather famous novels taking place in Oslo. See the list here.
You might perhaps also be interested in taking a walk with Henrik Ibsen.
Or get to know Oslo inside the world of Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole.
And did you know that Oslo is home of The Future Library?

Literary Bergen
Learn about Bergen’s top cultural spots with author Gunnar Staaelsen.

Norway’s Book Towns
There are two book towns in Norway; in both Fjærland and Tvedestrand books play the leading role! Learn more about the book towns here.

Outstanding Norwegian libraries
See Visit Norway’s guide to libraries well worth a visit.

The Book Booths (Lesekiosk)
This is a national project aiming to spread litterature to the population. One hundred protected old phone booths country-wide have been filled with books in order to make litterature and good reading experiences easily accessible to people.
Read more and find an “updated map here”:See updated map.

That curious Norwegian habit of crime fiction (and TV-series) for Easter: Påskekrim
Lean more about how it all started.

If you have any tips on other useful websites, we would very much appreciate hearing from you.

Norwegian publishers and literary agencies

Please find a presentation of the members of the Norwegian Publishers’ Association here.

See our list of Norwegian Literary Agencies here.

More information

For translators of Norwegian literature, we have compiled a selection of tools and information (in Norwegian) which we hope will be useful, here.

You may find information about NORLA’s sister organisations in the Nordic region here.

For information on the Norwegian book industry, please click here.

For further reading on Norwegian literature, also in other languages, please click here.

If you read Norwegian you may enjoy our interview series Translator of the Month.

(Updated: September 2026)