Norway’s guest of honour status continues – in Zofingen, Switzerland!

Norway is also guest of honour at the Literaturtage Zofingen, and seven Norwegian authors are invited to take part in the festival, which is entirely devoted to Norwegian literature. Audience members are expected to travel there from all over Switzerland. The travelling exhibition, “Georg Grosz meets Ulysses in Slapsefjell,” consisting of no fewer than 30 works by 11 Norwegian illustrators will be shown at the Kunsthaus.

Bjørn Ousland has been invited to take part in a school visit for the whole of week 43, before later meeting “ordinary” visitors at the festival too. On offer to the audience are meet-the-author events with Unni Lindell, Johan Harstad, Ida Hegazi Høyer, Helga Flatland, Gunstein Bakke and Bjørn Ousland, and NORLA’s Andrine Pollen will present an introduction to Norwegian Literature. In November, Eivind Hofstad Evjemo is invited to Aargauer Kantonsbiblitothek along with musician Hildegunn Øiseth.
See the festival programme 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.