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.
February 4-February 6 2019
Norway
Nordic Children's Book Conference in Stavanger
At the Nordic Children’s Book Conference, NBBK, in Stavanger, NORLA presents the event “Borderless Women’s Rights”, Wednesday 6 February at 14:30.
Marta Breen and Jenny Jordahl have published the non-fiction cartoon Women in Battle (2018). Foreign rights to the book have been sold to 21 countries. But in the United States, Jordahl had to draw clothes over naked nipples, and in Russia the book is only allowed for the over 18’s.
What kind of limitations meet Nordic literature abroad, and where to draw the line – quite literally – for censorship?
Meet Breen and Jordahl in converstation with their Russian translator Evgenia Vorobyeva. Moderator: Hilde Østby.
NB: Entry to the event requires a conference pass / day pass. Read more.
Hege Langrusten from NORLA will be attending the conference, February 5-6.
The complete program for the conference is available (in Norwegian only) here.
Read more about Women in Battle here.
Upcoming activities
September 1
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.