Rights Salon for Children's Literature, New York

The Frankfurt Book Fair’s New York office and Publishing Perspectives are, for the second time, organising a Rights Salon for Children’s Literature in New York. Hege Langrusten from NORLA will be taking part to help expand the contact network, particularly within children’s books.

Read more about the event here.

And the interviews with last year’s participants here.

On NORLA’s Flickr pages, you can see the covers, within Norwegian children and young-adult books, that have been published abroad since 2011, through translation support from NORLA and the Nordic Council.
Click here.

Upcoming activities

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.

September 15

Application deadline: Translation grants for Norwegian contemporary drama

The Writers’ Guild of Norway (in Norwegian: Dramatikerforbundet) may award grants for the translation of Norwegian dramatic works to other languages. The primary purpose of the grant scheme is to contribute to the presentation/production of Norwegian drama abroad.

October 1

Application deadline: Translation subsidy and Production subsidy

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.