Press conference: launch of Norway's Guest of Honour program for this year's Leipzig Book Fair

NORLA will hold a press conference at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin on Monday 20 January, at 11:00.
We look forward to preseting the Norwegian program for Leipziger Buchmesse taking place in March 2025, where Norway is Guest of Honour.

Taking part in the press conference are authors Vigdis Hjorth and Simon Stranger, Norway’s ambassador Laila Stenseng, director of the Leipziger Buchmesse Astrid Böhmisch, Thomas Böhm and representatives from NORLA.

Read more about Norway’s Guest of Honour project here.

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.