Holiday hours at NORLA
At NORLA we will close for the Christmas holiday Thursday afternoon, December 19.
The office will reopen on Monday, January 6.
December 4-December 6
Rome, Italy
NORLA at the Rome Book Fair and Italian Networking Event
From December 4–6, NORLA will attend the Rome Book Fair, Più libri più liber, for the first time, motivated by Norway’s upcoming role as Guest of Honour at the Bologna Book Fair in 2026. Alongside a tour of the fair, NORLA will meet with small and medium-sized publishers.
On Thursday, December 5, NORLA is hosting a networking event in collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Rome. The aim is to provide information on NORLA’s activities and to establish connections between Italian publishers and Norwegian literary agents.
At this event, Siri Nergaard, professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway (Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge), will deliver a presentation on Norwegian literature and translation into Italian, and Bruno Giancarlo from the Italian Publishers Association (AIT) will offer insights into the Italian book trade.
Read more about Norway being Guest of Honour at the Bookfair in Bologna 2026 here
Visit the Rome Book Fair website
Upcoming activities
December 20-January 5 2025
January 15 2025
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.
February 1 2025
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.