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

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.