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

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.

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.