NORLA's Translator's Award

NORLA awards annually a prize to a talented emerging translator who has contributed significantly to the translation of Norwegian literature into foreign languages, as well as to the promotion of Norwegian literature abroad. NORLA’s Translator’s Award is given for translations directly from Norwegian.

From the left: Leonardo Pinto Silva (winner of NORLA's Translator's Award 2022), Margit Walsø (Director of NORLA) and Guilherme da Silva Braga (winner of NORLA's Translator's Award 2023). Photo: Fartein Rudjord

The prize value is 20 000 Norwegian kroner and included is a two week stay in Norway. It was awarded for the first time in May 2007, during the Norwegian Festival of Literature at Lillehammer.

The prize will be awarded every second year to a translator who has made an eminent contribution to Norwegian non-fiction literature, and every second year to a translator of Norwegian fiction.
The fiction award is granted courtesy of Kristin Brudevoll’s Anniversary Fund.

Winners of NORLA’s Translator’s Award:

2024: Mišo Grundler – Croatian (Non-Fiction)

2023: Guilherme da Silva Braga – Brazilian Portuguese (Fiction)

2022: Leonardo Pinto Silva – Brazilian Portuguese (Non-Fiction)

2021: Karolina Drozdowska – Polish (Fiction)

2020: Lucy Moffatt – English (Non-Fiction)

2019: Ursel Allenstein – German (Fiction)

2018: Frank Zuber – German (Non-Fiction)

2017: Maike Dörries – German (Fiction)

2016: Nargis Shinkarenko – Russian (Non-Fiction)

2015: Eva Dimitrova Kaneva – Bulgarian (Fiction)

2014: Diane Oatley – English (Non-Fiction)

2013: Dana Caspi – Hebrew (Fiction)

2012: Hwasue S. Warberg – Korean (Non-Fiction)

2011: Céline Romand-Monnier – French (Fiction)

2010: Loup-Maëlle Besançon – French (Non-Fiction)

2009: Cristina Gómez Baggethun – Spanish (Fiction)

2008: Jelena Ratsjinskaja – Russian (Non-Fiction)

2007: Olga Drobot – Russian (Fiction)

2007: John Irons – English (Non-Fiction)