Victoria Kielland and NORLA to Gdansk

First, there will be a presentation of Victoria Kielland’s novel My Men (original title: Mine menn) in Polish in a bookstore in Sopot, with the author in conversation with translator Karolina Drozdowska.
See the bookstore’s Facebook event.

We will also participate in the Scandinavian Translators’ Day at the University of Gdansk on 11 May – one of 9 universities in Poland where Norwegian is taught!

(Photo: Julia Marie Naglestad)

Upcoming activities

June 1

Application deadline: Translation subsidy and Production subsidy

Read about translation subsidy.

Read about production subsidy.

June 2-June 5

Lillehammer, Norway

Translators of Norwegian literature to Lillehammer

NORLA is looking forward to gathering ten translators of Norwegian literature in Lillehammer on June 2-5, as we do annually for the Norwegian Festival of Literature / Sigrid Undset Days.
This year’s festival- and program theme is Europe, and festival runs from June 1 through June 7.

The participants will also be meeting Agnes Ravatn, as well as having a translation workshop based on an excerpt from her novel Doggerland, which is among NORLA’s Selected Spring titles.

June 16-June 19

Oslo, Norway

Fellowship in Oslo (Non-fiction literature)

NORLA has the pleasure of inviting foreign publishers and editors of non-ficiton literature to apply for our fellowship program, which this year will take place in Oslo from June 16 – 19.