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.
The Norwegian Institute for Children’s Books (NBI) extends an invitation to an international seminar on Thursday, 14 September 09:30 AM–04.00 PM.
The seminar will focus on the themes of censorship, self-censorship and care in literature for children and young people. Dina Roll-Hansen, senior advisor for children and young people’s literature at NORLA, will take part in the programme with her talk “What awaits Norwegian books abroad?” Read more about the seminar here (in Norwegian).
Some of the international speakers were interviewed by NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting Corportation, in English here.
If you understand Norwegian, you may here our colleague Dina interviewed here.
You will also find a Norwegian summary of the seminar 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.