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.
May 17-May 20 2024
NORLA's offices closed
Our offices will be closed on Friday, May 17, due to Norway’s Constitution Day. We are also closed for Whit Monday, on May 20.
We will be back on Tuesday, May 21.
Happy 17th of May and Holidays!
Read more about the Norwegian celebration here.
(Photo: Ann Olerud)
Upcoming activities
June 1
June 3-June 6
Lillehammer, Norway
Translators of Norwegian literature to Lillehammer
NORLA is looking forward to gathering ten translators of Norwegian literature in Lillehammer, as we do annually for the Norwegian Festival of Literature / Sigrid Undset Days on June 3-6.
This year the festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and the theme of the program is Sápmi.
The festival runs from June 2 through June 8.
June 10-June 13
Oslo, Norway
NORLA Fellowship in Oslo 2025: Children and YA literature
Norway will be Guest of Honour at the Bologna Children´s Book Fair in 2026. NORLA invites foreign publishers and editors of children and YA literature to apply for our fellowship program, which this year will take place in Oslo from June 10 -13. The fellowship will focus on Norwegian children & YA literature. On the program will be visits to Norwegian publishing houses, presentations by Norwegian authors, meetings with literary agents, as well as an extensive social program in Oslo.