Summer holidays at NORLA
NORLA’s offices are closed in July for our summer holidays.
We would like to thank you all for a pleasant collaboration so far this year.
We will be back in the office on Monday, 4 August.
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.
This year, participants of all languages are welcome to apply, if your area of interest is children & YA literature. Italian applicants are especially encouraged.
The fellowship covers accommodation for three nights in Oslo (June 10-13).
Travel costs must be covered by each fellow.
Please apply using the form here
Application deadline: Friday, February 28th, 2025, at 12.00 (CET).
(Summer in Oslo. Photo: Per Øystein Roland)
Upcoming activities
July 1-August 3
August 1
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.
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.