Summer holidays at NORLA
NORLA’s offices are closed in July for our summer holidays.
We would like to thank you all for a pleasant collaboration so far this year.
We will be back in the office on Monday, 4 August.
October 29-October 31 2023
United Arab Emirates
NORLA at the Sharjah International Book Fair
As part of the preparations for Norway’s Guest of Honour participation in the Cairo Book Fair in January, NORLA will be attending the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates from October 29th to 31st. This is an important rights fair that will provide a broad network and overview of the entire Arabic-language publishing world.
NORLA will participate in the book fair’s publishers conference, which is aimed at the part of the international and Arabic language publishing industry involved in rights sales.
Visit the book fair’s website
Upcoming activities
July 1-August 3
August 1
Application deadline: Author and lecturer visits to institutions of higher learning abroad
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.
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.