Meet the authors Vigdis Hjorth and Simon Stranger

Following NORLA’s presentation of the Norwegian Guest of Honour program for Leipziger Buchmesse (March 27-30), there will be a literary event at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin with two of the authors on the program.
The German audience get to meet Vigdis Hjorth and Simon Stranger in conversation with Thomas Böhm.
The event takes place in the Felleshus, on Monday January 20 at 19:00, and is completely sold out. Read more (in German).

Find out more about Norway’s Guest of Honour project here.

Upcoming activities

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.

September 15

Application deadline: Translation grants for Norwegian contemporary drama

The Writers’ Guild of Norway (in Norwegian: Dramatikerforbundet) may award grants for the translation of Norwegian dramatic works to other languages. The primary purpose of the grant scheme is to contribute to the presentation/production of Norwegian drama abroad.

October 1

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.