Holiday hours at NORLA
At NORLA we will close for the Christmas holiday Thursday afternoon, December 19.
The office will reopen on Monday, January 6.
This year we are also looking forward to attending the book fair in Beijing, in collaboration with our sister organizations from Sweden, Denmark and Finland (NordLit).
Please contact us if you would like to schedule a meeting.
See our selected titles with presentations in both Chinese and English.
Like last year, NordLit is also preparing a seminar in conjunction with the fair dedicated to translators into Chinese from the respective languages. The author Endre Lund Eriksen will take part in the seminar and will also be presenting a separate programme of readings in the course of the week.
Read more about Endre Lund Eriksen.
Author and illustrator Stian Hole is also in Beijing during the Book Fair, taking part in a Chinese Culture Exchange Seminar along with approx. 70 authors, translators and critics. The seminar is arranged by China Culture Translation Study and Support, CCTSS. Read more about Stian Hole.
See the covers of Norwegian books recently published in Chinese through NORLA’s translation subsidies here.
At NORLA we will close for the Christmas holiday Thursday afternoon, December 19.
The office will reopen on Monday, January 6.
NORLA administrates the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ scheme for travel grants for authors and lecturers who will visit institutions of higher learning abroad where instruction is given in the Norwegian language.
Please note that there are new application deadlines in 2025, with three deadlines in total, for Norwegian books in all genres:
1 February, 1 June and 1 October.