Summer holidays at NORLA
NORLA’s offices are closed in July for our summer holidays.
We would like to thank you all for a pleasant collaboration so far this year.
We will be back in the office on Monday, 4 August.
April 16-April 19 2015
Norway
Gunnar Staalesen, Herbjørg Wassmo and Stian Hole in France
Meet Gunnar Staalesen, Herbjørg Wassmo and Stian Hole at Les Escapades littéraires, in Draguignan.
The festival Les Escapades littéraires is arranged by Libraires du Sud, and this year’s festival focuses on Nordic literature.
In addition to the three Norwegian authors, esteemed French translator Jean-Baptiste Coursaud will take part in the programme, among others in an event presenting the author Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970).
Read more on the Norwegian participants here.
See the packed programme of literary events, workshops for children, concerts, films, exhibitions and more here.
Read more about the festival here.
Read more about Libraires du Sud here.
Upcoming activities
July 1-August 3
August 1
Application deadline: Author and lecturer visits to institutions of higher learning abroad
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.
September 1
Application deadline: Sample translation of Norwegian literature
Publishers, agents and translators abroad and in Norway can apply to NORLA for subsidies for sample translations.
Read more here.